Anyeong Korea!

Day 14 (Fri)- our last day in Korea, had buffet breakfast but choices not as good as the one at Ramada's... but at least we had breakfast provided... slept again after breakfast, and checked out at 1200... walked to Gwanghwamun again to catch the Seoul city tour bus, WON10,000 each person... the tour took approx 2 hours one way, and you can hop on and off at any stop for the whole day until 7pm... we got off at Cheongwadae,which is apparently where the president of Korea conducts his business, and there were police patrolling the area... you have to be escorted by a tour guide if you want to enter though, so we just walked along the area... that was the only stop where we got down, otherwise, all I did was snap pics of the areas we drove pass... walked back to Myungdong where we had late lunch, I decided to eat bulgogi rather than my grilled chicken, it turned out to be expensive and not as nice as the one in Jeju despite the signboard saying that the black pork is from Jeju... after that, we made our way to the Ibis hotel bus stop where there is an airport shuttle for WON10,000 each... it was approx a 90mins journey to the airport due to traffic... 

once at the airport, it was still so early that the checkin counter is not even open, so we were sitting around waiting... once our luggage is checked in, we decided to go through customs, go settle our tax refund and find some food... we found this food court, which had Burger King and KFC and some korean food, but later realised that they were closing and that there was not much choices left, which made us really upset, complaining about the airport being voted best airport apparently but not being able to provide food 24 hours... so we ended up eating what we could, and settled down to await for our flight... we got to the airport about 1900 and our flight was not until 0020, talk about wasting all that time... finally it was time to board, again surrounded by crying babies, did not eat any food, arrived at singapore at approx 0545, not able to go out to eat my fishball noodles as the time in between the flights was too tight... so settled for yuntun noodles which were so expensive and not nice at all... and then it was time to board our next flight back to sydney... I hate flying... and that's the end of my 2 week hols in Korea... another week left before reality really sets in... no more travelling for at least a year, not going to NZ this year anymore, have to start looking for another job mid next year... continue looking for houses, painful... and maybe think of travelling to NZ in between jobs, hopefully...