Last week Sunday, we were feeling rather lazy, but decided we should get out of the house and go for a ride on the scooter around Seoul. We decided to head for Songbokdong, an area on the northern side of the city, near the city hall and the "Blue House", which is the presidents residence.
As we started to get near City Hall, we noticed police everwhere and riot vehicles had blocked off most of the area. It turned out there was a major demonstration against the Korea- US Free Trade Agreement. The demonstration had not been approved so was illegal and they expected there could be some issues. This is actually the second time we have been caught in a demonstration around that area, the other time was with Carla's parents in March. It is not so good for us to be around the area when these happen, as we look like we are American, so it is qite possible that frustrations could be taken out on us. Nothing like this happened though, and we stayed away from the actual demonstration.
We then found an area with a lot of very nice restaurants leading up to a small mountain, so we found a spot for the bike and decided to climb the mountain. It really is nice with all the colour changes of the trees.
The hike up the mountain was really nice, except the battery of the camera died after 2 pictures and we were still at the bottom.
We are still surprised sometimes by how people find us "interesting". When we got to the top of the mountain, we sat down to enjoy the view overlooking Seoul. We then had a large group of Koreans come over to have their picture taken with us. They then offered us various biscuits and left. It was really nice.
We then had an easy walk down and went for coffee at Dunkin Doughnuts. Unfortunately it was terrible coffee, but nice to watch everyone go by.
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