I should have stayed in a hotel overnight in Hong Kong and took the morning flight direct to Jeju Island – I’m very tired. I booked into a lounge and had a shower and something to eat and drink, boarded the plane and fell asleep straight away. Got woken up for food but said I wasn’t hungry, back to sleep again. Woke up as we were coming in to land, got about 3 hours. What was supposed to be a 20 hour trip was now around 28.
Got through immigration quickly, went to get a bus but was an hour and a half wait, so took the train instead.
There are instructions on a poster on the train about what to do in the event of an earthquake, but it’s in Korean. The pictures show people running away with their hands over their heads so I think I’ll do that. Not sure why they needed a poster though.
Took about an hour and a half to get to the hotel, went to the room, said hello to Song and collapsed on the bed.
Slept for a few hours, then checked out, left the bags and went over the road to the train station to get breakfast. Basically if you don’t want noodles you’re out of luck. We found a place that also did dumplings so went for that. It was an unusual set up – you pick 7 dumplings from a selection then heat them up in a microwave. They were OK, a couple pretty spicy which I decided to leave.
Had a coffee then went back to the hotel to pick up the bags, and onto the airport via train. A different airport to where I landed, closer to the city and it turned out it had just been upgraded and there were camera crews everywhere and a stage with some presentations.
Flight was a quick hop of just over an hour, here for 3 nights, no more airports for a few days.
The hotel is a bit remote, about an hour from the airport, or 30 minutes if you get the insane taxi driver we had.
We ate in the restaurant, not a lot of choice on the menu. Song had a seafood stew and I decided against steak and went for grilled mackerel. I asked the waiter if it came with vegetables. “Vegetables?” he said. Vegetables. “Vegetables?” yes, vegetables. He got out his phone, fired up Google translate, and showed me. It said “vegetables”. I said OK.
It didn’t come with vegetables.
Early night after the long travel over the last couple of days, going to probably get a hop on hop off bus tomorrow and do a mini tour on Friday.
