Korea

Sorry to overload you with so many entries in one go but it's getting harder to keep up to date.

We've been in Korea for the last week staying with a friend (Stuart). It's been really great staying with someone who lives here. Not only do we get to eat cereal and drink tea for breakfast, but we also get insider tips on what to do.

We have eaten some of the most amazing food of our entire trip so far. Stuart has been taking us to little local places where you cook your own meat at the table. It's really delicious. Here is a photo of us (the laughing couple on the right are friends of the guy taking the photo)

We took a trip to the DMZ to get a glimpse of North Korea. It was quite a weird place really. A great big no mans land between two countries. It is quite tightly guarded and we had to follow some strict rules about what we could and couldn't do. The North Korean soldiers were taking photos of us. If we waved or pointed they would alter our pictures to look as though we were sticking our finger up at them. They would then use it as propaganda. It was really good to learn more about the history of it all.

Here is a photo of the room that any talks happen between the North and South. The table is exactly half in North Korea and half in South Korea. We were allowed to walk on to the other side of the table but that was as close as we could get to entering the North.

We went to the palace yesterday. It has some really beautiful buildings there but the most amazing part was the autumn colours. The trees are so colourful!