The Lourve visits Korea
After a busy saturday shopping we thought it was high time we went and did something cultural. So where do you go when you want to feel educated, the museum. The Korean National Museum to be precise, where the Lourve exhibition had come to visit. I had presumed that France wouldn't let the Mona Lisa out of its sight, but I had expected a few of the big names. Now I'm no art critic so I apologise if there were some wonderful paintings there but none of them were that nice.
Me being a poser
Me being a poser Outside the Korea National Museum
After the museum we got a taxi up to Itawon where we did a little more shopping on the street stalls (Jenna bought a poncho, she's turning into a right girly girl). Caroline and Steph (Caroline is a friend from Australia that has helped us endlessly since weve been her, Steph is her New Zealand friend that has lived in Korea for several years which is also handy) took us to a grey market. Now from what I've been told this is not illegal but not quite on the straight and narrow either. It is a small shop hunderds of yeard down this small road that sells all kinds of American products which you just can't get in Korea. Like deodorants, wetern medicine where you can actually read the instructions and of course the all important pop-tart. They buy it all off the American soliders who get it from their base shops, so as you can imagine its all well over priced but might be worth going for a little treat every so often.
For dinner we were then taken to this really nice Thai restaurant, which was a treat compared to Korean food. To be honest I haven't really eaten much Korean food out, which suits me because most of it has fish in and unless you have pictures we haven't got a hope of telling what it is. Emily seems to do alright at trying stuff because she gets school dinners but she's told me some horror stories like fish head soup and nothing but stewed fish bones.
I will have to be more daring.
- Posted by k_millington on 05/01/2007.
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