Go the Bokke!!!!

I will add some more pictures and video of the Rugby World Cup final as soon as I get a chance. We were in Itaewon at 3am to watch the game.



Here is a short video which I found quite good.



Fast Food Delivery

Map of Korea

Here is a map of Korea, with a few of the holiday places we have been to.

Australia

We have finally booked out tickets to Aus, we will be going for 2 weeks at the end of December. I have not seen most of my family from there for about 17 years, so it will be good. I can't promise I will remember who is who, and there are more family members now.

It will be interesting for Carla, first time to Aus, but will probably be a bit overwhelming with all the family to meet.

Becoming Korean

This weekend we realised that we have been here a while now, and are becoming so familiar with the way of life and habits, that we are becoming more Korean. The realisation happened because of food.

On Saturday we were wondering what we should have for lunch, and Carla had been pestering me the whole morning for Galbi (Korean Barbeque). We were at home, so did not want to go out then, so we settled down for .... kim and bap (rice and dried seaweed)!!! And afterwards we commented on how nice it was. Life is really changing.

Bradley with his Kim and Bap

Later that evening, we eventually did go out for Galbi at a nice Korean restaurant near to Itaewon. We sat on the floor, had our Kimchi, Kimchijeege ( Kimchi soup with tofu) our rice and of course the pork cooked on hot coals in front of us in the restaurant table.

After that, we settled down to watch our pirated version of 24 that we had bought from the electronics market.

All around a good day.

Seoul Life

Video test

Hi, I am trying to test out whether we can add videos to the blog. lets see what happens.

Eating and drinking in Seoul

We are slowly but surely trying to make our way through all the various restaurants in Itaewon. We decided, when we arrived in Seoul and we saw the variety of places to eat, that we would attempt to try a different restaurant each time we ate out. Of course, we haven't stuck to this because we now have a few favourites and we also find ourselves eating at the Seoul Club quite often (there's a mandatory amount that you have to spend on food and bevarage each quarter). Our favourite restaurant in Itaewon is La Cigale (French restaurant). We love, love, love the mussel pots. We also like Le Saint Ex (also French), we ate there for the first time on our wedding anniversary and it's really good. The other night we tried Zelen which serves delicious Bulgarian food. Their red bean salad came highly recommended from a friend of mine. I thought 'who the hell orders red bean salad' but she was right it was excellent. We also tried Ali Baba a Middle Eastern restaurant which I've been wanting to try for ages. It was a huge disappointment. Totally overpriced for the amount of food you get and the food certaily wasn't good enough to justify the price. They also wouldn't serve us alcohol because of 'Ramadan', which is understandable but just as our cokes arrived at the table we saw them whip out a bottle of wine and serve two glasses of wine to some other people in the restaurant??? Odd, especially when Brad had asked the waiter about 'wine by the glass'. We won't be patronising that restaurant again, we'd rather spend the same amount of money at the French restaurants which are definitely worth the price.

Strawberry Bubble Tea at the Seoul Club - it's my new favourite drink. It's made with Tapioca

Waiting for food at Kraze Burger

Kraze Burger

La Saint Ex