I am sitting in a room in a building shaped like a ceramic pot as the rain falls and the light fades. It's quiet here and I like it. Seoul has too much going on. And while my box shaped apartment in the Gangnam area gives me respite from all the hubbub going on out on the streets, any venture outside involves avoiding traffic and people and being subjected to the noise that is the city. Here there are rice fields, vegetable farms, very few people, the occasional car, and the beach. I think I could stay here forever.
Then again, maybe that's not true. I did have that thought, though, but almost as quickly as it came, it went away. Yeungheung-do (the island we went to was nice), but there was very little to do. We looked for a place to rent bikes or kayaks and could find nothing. We walked up the beach looking for a pub where I could maybe watch a Korean baseball game with a beer, but again nothing. It seemed to me that with all the accommodations on the island there should be something to do. But alas, when we asked her, the owner of the little cafe we went to twice (because we didn't have a whole lot of choices) told us that basically the beach was it. So if any of you are looking to open a business that specializes in renting ocean kayaks, I know a place.
The island itself, though, was nice and quiet and we enjoyed the short time we stayed. A few pics:
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| Those large pots are actually buildings. |
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| The owners live here and built them all in 2007. We stayed on the second floor of the one on the right. |
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| Looking between the two rows. |
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| Here is ours. |
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| They had an artist come in and paint them all. |
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| The front door from inside our room. |
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| The kitchen area. |
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| Besides the bed in the other room, this was all the furniture in the place. |
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| The lady that owns the place is also an avid gardener/farmer. |
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| She took us to the grocery store so that we could get supplies for a BBQ and then took us in her greenhouse and gave us two armloads of veggies. Great stuff. |
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| Walking to the beach. |
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| I like the last listing, "Home for Missing Children". I thought maybe it was an orphanage, but Ami said it's where parents can go to find little ones that have suddenly disappeared. |
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| A look down the beach. |
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| We took a walk to a temple. And no, it's not a Nazi temple. That symbol is Buddhist. |
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| Walked up a small mountain to get to the place. |
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| Did I mention that we did this in a tropical storm? We stood under there to take a breather and snap some shots before heading back down. |
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| The temple was just a few buildings that all looked like this. |
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| A few buildings, the beach, and not much else around these parts, but it was a great break from the 15 million people that live in Seoul. |
