Heading north in South Korea

After travelling by train for 5 and a half hours from Busan, we arrived to Suwon, a satellite city to the capital Seoul, and checked in at a cheap hotel that we had booked the night before. The hotel was right on the back of the vibrant and busy Rodeo Street, which unlike Texas Street in Busan, was great and had many great looking restaurants, bars, shops, arcade games and even a driving range to practice baseball hits (very surprisingly, we realized that like in Taiwan, baseball was by far the most popular sport in Korea). We had dinner at a very cute small restaurant where we tried Bulgogi, marinated thinly shredded beef BBQ. To do it like the locals, we drunk both beer and the very popular Korean spirit, Soju (18% alcohol drunk in little shot glasses).
On the following day we had a very pleasant, and long, walk to the old city walls and visited a palace on a very nice neighborhood, where we stopped in a cafe where all the coffee was from a farm in Chang Mai, Thailand. Before walking back to our hotel, we stopped in a restaurant

that had an offer on the traditional Korean BBQ, where the most beautiful, delicious, tender and succulent beef is grilled on charcoal by us at the table. Like in Busan and the night before, we had the clear impression that we would love to live in Korea. On the following morning before taking the metro to Seoul, we visited the Korean Folk Village, where we could learn about the traditional Korean life, architecture, pottery, woodwork, dance, social structure, music and traditional food and drinks. It was pretty underwhelming.
On our first day in Seoul we took Flora to the Children's Grand Park and it was amazing. It had a amusement park which we didn't use, a free entrance zoo that we loved, playgrounds, a water playground

where Flora cooled down from the heat, a water fountain show with music and a Children's Museum that we had no time to visit. However, the park was so good and Flora had so much fun that we went back three days later which gave us the chance to visit the museum. We were so happy to have done it because the museum was incredible. So good and so cheap. The other days in Seoul were busy and fun. We visited the Bukchon Hanok Village, a 600 years old preserved Korean old village right inside the city where Cat bought 3 beautiful dresses and a top, walked through the Cheonggyecheon, a 8.4 km stream crossing downtown Seoul, visited an amazing art gallery called Leeum Museum of Art and the Dongdaemun Design Plaza designed by Zaha Hadid. We

also had dinner at Gwangjang street food market where we tried the traditional and delicious Mung Bean Pancakes and went to two other Korean BBQ's. One of just pork and one with beef too. Pedro was in heaven! One thing we noticed in Korea is the prevalence of couples going out together wearing matching outfits - shirts, t-shirts, shoes, socks. The whole shebang. Pretty entertaining!