it's ten past midnight and i just got home from my whirlwind weekend in Seoul. i hadn't been up there yet, and since i'm on vacation this week, and my friend kim was meeting some friends there this weekend, i hopped on the KTX with her. of course, the first thing i have to do when i get home is upload my pictures and start posting!!! can't keep my away from here for long! so, in that vein, here is part one of my whirlwind weekend... it'll take a few days to post it all, since i'll go step by step and don't want to overwhelm all of my loyal readers...
FRIDAY
it already feels like a hundred years ago... i had to work until 4:30. our train (on the KTX - not sure what it actually stands for, but it's the bullet train... and goes up to 300 kilometers per hour) was at 9:13PM... so we met at Gupo station around 8:30.
i'm lucky that i live pretty close to the high speed train, it only takes me about thirty minutes on the bus and another ten on the subway... if i lived any further west it would take a lot longer and i'd probably have to go all the way into busan...
we were a little early and SO excited... can't you tell? i think we were both a little tired too since we'd been working all day... but we were equipped for the ride with snacks and drinks, and i brought along a deck of cards. the train only takes three hours... did i mention it goes up to 300km per hour? :)
so about five minuted before departure, they let us all crowd onto the platform, of course, they couldn't possibly have an escalator for all the people with luggage, but they did think of putting in a place to wheel your bag up (see above) if you're so lucky as to have wheels on your bag... i had a back pack...
and as always, you have to go up the stairs, just to go back down to the right platform... just had to shoot this as proof... as i still couldn't believe that we were on our way to seoul!
the train arrived promptly at 9:13 and we boarded - car seven...
i've been on a lot of trains in my day... but this was one of the nicer ones... looks a lot like an airplane, but with bigger windows... and more leg room. it wasn't the coolest train i've ever been on, but it was comfortable.
since we travelled at night, i don't have any shots out the window... :( ... next time... it was a good ride, and we arrived in seoul at midnight on friday night. we tried to take the subway, but it was closed, so we took a cab to Kim's Guest House, the place we would call home for the next three days... more on that soon!
well, that's it for now folks, stay tuned for the real deal... it was a wild and crazy weekend... who'd have thought you could DO so much in only three days!!!
FRIDAY
it already feels like a hundred years ago... i had to work until 4:30. our train (on the KTX - not sure what it actually stands for, but it's the bullet train... and goes up to 300 kilometers per hour) was at 9:13PM... so we met at Gupo station around 8:30.
i'm lucky that i live pretty close to the high speed train, it only takes me about thirty minutes on the bus and another ten on the subway... if i lived any further west it would take a lot longer and i'd probably have to go all the way into busan...
we were a little early and SO excited... can't you tell? i think we were both a little tired too since we'd been working all day... but we were equipped for the ride with snacks and drinks, and i brought along a deck of cards. the train only takes three hours... did i mention it goes up to 300km per hour? :)
so about five minuted before departure, they let us all crowd onto the platform, of course, they couldn't possibly have an escalator for all the people with luggage, but they did think of putting in a place to wheel your bag up (see above) if you're so lucky as to have wheels on your bag... i had a back pack...
and as always, you have to go up the stairs, just to go back down to the right platform... just had to shoot this as proof... as i still couldn't believe that we were on our way to seoul!
the train arrived promptly at 9:13 and we boarded - car seven...
i've been on a lot of trains in my day... but this was one of the nicer ones... looks a lot like an airplane, but with bigger windows... and more leg room. it wasn't the coolest train i've ever been on, but it was comfortable.since we travelled at night, i don't have any shots out the window... :( ... next time... it was a good ride, and we arrived in seoul at midnight on friday night. we tried to take the subway, but it was closed, so we took a cab to Kim's Guest House, the place we would call home for the next three days... more on that soon!
well, that's it for now folks, stay tuned for the real deal... it was a wild and crazy weekend... who'd have thought you could DO so much in only three days!!!
3 comments:
I imagine at 300 km/hr any pictures taken from the train window would have been nothing but a blur!
ya, probably... but the train doesn't go that fast the whole way!!
ohh!!!! can't wait to hear all about it...:)..will read from Chicago...fly tomorrow!!!!
miss ya already !
xx
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