Merry Christmas from Korea!!! Ok, so it's a bit late. I wanted to post these photo's of the beautiful Christmas lights.

Just before Christmas, Woogi and I went away to Jeollabuk do in the south for a break. We stayed in a traditional clay house in Naesosa.

This is it. The doors were just paper and it had just snowed that week. I'm grateful to have been born in a time with heating!


Our room. The floor was heated by a fire at one end of the house with the flue running under the floor and a chimney at the other end. The floor was hot but the air wasn't!

The fire which doubled for cooking. We baked sweet potatoes and sausages for our dinner one night.


The chimney at the other end.

One day we went for a hike in the Byeonsan Penisula National Park. It was good to get out into some fresh air though as you can see, it was CHILLY!


Woogi and I
A nice sunset on the way back home.


The following day we went to Chaeseokgang where the cliffs are like pancakes.


We ate seafood on the beach. The octopus was so fresh it was still wiggling. Once is enough!

I woke up this morning to a very snowy, view. It was so gorgeous. It has almost disappeared now but I took some pics before it melted.

The view from my balcony.

Icy!

Cotton like puffs!

To compare .....

Above is the path I walk along to work in spring, autumn and winter.

This is also along the same path - spring, summer, autumn and winter.

An ex-coworker got married this weekend. It was a church wedding and pretty much like weddings back home except that we ate first. Above is the beautiful bride (who sits in a room with a couple of friends and waits for people to come and say hi and take a picture with her, before the ceremony)and teachers and staff from work.

An innocent older Korean women you think? Watch closely.

Good food. Ah but I can't eat it all so.....

......I'll just put it inside the plastic bag I prepared inside my handbag.

She piled up 3 plate loads, some of which she ate and the rest went into the doggy bag. Most amusing to watch.

The happy couple. Thanks for the invite!

Woogi got this Christmas tree for an unbelievable $10 - everything included. So my apartment is looking a bit seasonal now!

Crazy Gaku came to stay for a couple of days. This is a self potrait he took. It was good to see him after nearly 2 years!

A friend of Woogi's belongs in a band which had a concert, two weeks back. It was good. Most people just sat in seats all lined up like in a movie theatre.

We went to the national museum. It was full of pottery and paintings. I enjoyed the paintings but I was a bit disappointed that I didn't get more of a visual impression of life here years ago and years and years ago. I did find out that I have been misled in thinking Guttenburg first invented the printing press. The Koreans got there a few hundred years earlier.These ducks are one of my favourite things in Korea. They cute!

I also like the paintings of men. I don't know who they are or why they were painted but they have a lot of character.