May 2014 - Our 26th Wedding Anniversary Adventure!

Leading up to Prom night for Alice, she suggested (strongly) that Russ and I might like to go away for our Wedding Anniversary - how sweet of her to think of us like that...... and she thought it would be good to have her friends over to stay after the Prom (while we were away!!).  As it happened, we DID go away for a night, left her the apartment, and had an adventure!!!!

My research lead me to discover a pension (like a B&B, but this one didn't have any of the 2nd B) over on the east coast of Korea, only about 2 hours away, that looked very CUTE!!!!  Of course, MANY things look extra good when you see them online. The website was entirely in Korean, but that didn't dissuade me, neither did the fact that once I had worked out how to book a room, the website wouldn't accept any of my cards (Korean or Australian!).... so off we went, without a booking, and (at best) a vague idea of where we were going.

As it happened, the website was accurate in its directions, to within a km or two (surely that's close enough....).Even our car navigator was a little confused....at one stage, after we had caught sight of the pension, the navigator thought we were following a well-established road.....to us, it looked like we were driving along a sand track next to the beach..... slowly so as not to run over any tents or small children!! We made it back on to bitumen road down the track a little, and located the pension..... found the ajumma who ran the place, and negotiated a room (in Korean.....no English for miles around!!).  DONE!!!

The bed was hard (normal in Korea), the bathroom was minimal (that's being generous....but there was a handbasin, a toilet and a shower nozzle, so it was basically all there!!), the underfloor heating was on (in May....well into Spring, and certainly short sleeve weather), and there was no coffee (again, standard in Korea).  What could possibly go wrong with our Anniversary adventure??

We found dinner, bought coffee, walked along the beach next to fireworks, and campfires inside the tents.....and headed to our home for the night.  We couldn't work the TV, couldn't turn the underfloor heating off (centrally-controlled, so we opened the window), and the shower didn't have a hot water option.......hehe.

After a fitful sleep, Russ was ready for his first coffee...necessity is the mother of invention, so a cereal bowl was equally as good as a mug for the first coffee of the day! We did find a coffee shop on the way home that day, so all is well.

A fun adventure!

At least there were rice fields just next door, so Russ was happy...
sort of.

All in all, I think the adventure was worth it, just to say we've been there!!!  ....not sure Russ agrees....