November
1st, Friday
We got up super early – jet lag
again – sigh. After a clean up, we went
to breakfast. Gosh, the nurses were
almost gone. Convention must be
over. Quiet nice breakfast. Packed up our stuff, checked out and waited
for our ride to the KTX bullet train station.
Got there early. We have a lot of
bags to schlep around, so we were a bit worried. No need.
There’s enough English in the station that we easily found our way
around. KTX 121 10 AM train to
Busan. Although we were getting out at
Gyeongiu. We were warned to get to our
car (14) so we could store the 2 larger bags at the end of the car. No problem.
We hopped on, but were requested to wait until they did a quick
clean. Again, no problem. Gyeongiu was the 6th stop. Since we only had 1 ½ minutes to get off the
train, and given that our stop would be at 12:07, we walked to the entrance at
12. So did everyone else who wanted to
get out at Gyeongiu. Still, when we were
ready, easy to get off quickly.
Charlie and I on the platform of the KTX train at Seoul Station
Inside the KTX train
We were met by a non English
speaking driver who drove us to the Suites Hotel. On the drive I kept asking myself what we had
come to see here. It had a kind-of State
College, Korea feel to it. No one was
around the hotel lobby, but we were told we had to wait until 3 to check in (it
was a little before 1). Really? Wait for
check in? We had lunch in the lobby
restaurant. Easy.
After lunch we decided to try to
walk around. The hotel itself has a 9
hole golf course. Not much else. A building down the hill was called the Dream Center.
What was this? We found out later
it was another hotel. Just above it was
a louvre-like pyramid and some buildings.
It turned out to be a teddy bear museum.
No one was there either. How
could you find this place, and why would you spend a lot of cash to see a
museum full of teddy bears near nothing.
At 2:30 we asked to get a room. At last.
Nice room, but no air conditioning and it’s kind of warm here today. Dinner has to be at the hotel. We can’t ask to be taken anywhere else by
taxi, and unless we plan to eat teddy bears, there’s nothing else here.
Dinner was spicy beef soup and lots
of fun pickles in a completely empty dining room, Tables were set for at least 50 people, and
we were the only customers. Very
eerie. TV has got very little of value. Bed.
Not a soul in sight.
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