Today, Russ and I went for a wander to explore the hills near our apartment.  We found quite a few walking tracks, great views, and a few other people out enjoying the 'fresh' air and nature.  We came across a lovely boardwalk which even had a bird hide half way along.  One stream has little ponds half way down, that have sitting areas and mini boardwalks around them.  Once the weather warms and a bit of green can be seen, it will be a very nice place to spend time.

Today, Alice and I spent the day up in Seoul with the lovely Marg Gobius.  There is an express bus that stops just outside our apartment and after another 3 or 4 stops gets onto the expressway and cruises in the BUS LANE past all the much slower traffic - took just 30 minutes to Itaewon, a district choc-a-bloc with Non-Koreans!!!!  It was a little disconcerting to see so many Western faces, since we have become accustomed to seeing very few....

Marg introduced us to the most wonderful English book shop - given our understanding of the Korean language this will be invaluable - new and pre-owned books at very reasonable prices.  I can't wait to take Russell!!!

We also found some "International" food shops, which will be handy, I'm sure, for just the few things we can't find locally but decide we really want!!! (like chicken stock ..... yes, chicken stock).

Just like all our times with Marg, we had a great day, with much talking!!!! I've decided that Alice and Marg may be dangerous allies in the shopping game...  Fun times!!!

We've been here almost a month and this is my first attempt at writing on my blog.  What a month! So much has happened and we have learnt a lot already.

We had our first 2 weeks here in a serviced apartment, getting me used to having people come in most days to clean - Russ hasn't offered for that to happen here yet...... We experienced our first snowfalls, Alice started at school and Russ commenced his foray into driving on Korean roads..... it isn't the roads that are the problem, it's the volume of traffic and some of the drivers!!!

Now we are settling in to our 9th floor apartment in a lovely area of Seongnam called Pangyo.  We look out at mountains, a small river runs right next to our apartment block - it's going to be so pretty in Spring!!

We are starting to feel like we are home - can't wait for our Australian container to arrive, but things are going well.  We had a new TV arrive yesterday and cable subscription (who'd have thought we would EVER go there!!!!) hooked up today, so a bit of 'playing' going on with that.