Today we awoke and with 1 suitcase full of gifts for the students and teacher and nice clothes for meeting /discussion tomorrow with the Middle School students mentioned earlier. I have also arranged for a translator and the teacher has arranged for a local newspaper reporter to be there. I hope it goes well.
Todays plan was to get tickets already paid for for a discount on Korea's bullet train the KTX to Busan. After finding the right place we secured seats to Busan and return tickets for 3:00 PM tomorrow.
On the bullet train. No neither of those people are Mary Ann.Mary Ann is next to me.
I took some pictures from the train to pass the time. This is not your father's Korea.
Industry everywhere
Plastic greenhouse are also everywhere.
Massive Apartment complexes far from big cities.
There is a small golf course beside the river.
We arrived in Busan and got a cab to our hotel, or at least we thought we had. The driver could not understand where we were going even with the address in Korean. So he took us to the wrong Brown Dot Hotel. They came out and told him the right address and we finally arrived at the correct Brown Dot Hotel.
Now the problem with getting hotels on line is location location location. This one is in the city center but we don't want to be there. So back online to find one with a better location when we are here with Meghan. I found one near the beach and a temple we want to go to. And thus for dinner we taxi out to Haeundae beach to check out the hotel. Good rooms and nice location. But today there was what had to be 30 mph. and we were dressed for spring. The wind blew everything not tied down, including Mary Ann and I.
But we lucked into a BBQ restaurant to get out of the wind. It was a good choice.
Weate but the wind had not gone away. grab a beer for tonight, Grab a taxi and back to the hotel.
Tomorrow we meet the students and then back to Seoul.
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