While we were in China we met an American women called Kim, who is currently living in South Korea, and she kindly offered to put us up for a couple of days. After we had dropped the car back to the airport (this time with no arguing!) we got a couple of trains and headed to Kim's town, Pyonteok. Kim picked us up from the station and drove us back to her place to get settled in. We were blown away with how gorgeous her flat was. It was massive, with an authentic...

I was really looking forward to South Korea, it was near the top of my list of places I wanted to go. We ummed and ahhed about going when we first left for travelling because of all the media reports on the problems with North Korea, but decided to book the flights anyway and assess what was going on nearer the time. While we were on our tour in China we met an American lady there who worked for the US army in South Korea and she told us there was no problem with...