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Hello in Korean is a real mouthful so until I master it a simple Hello will have to do!!!
We arrived at Beijing airport way too early for our flight due to the crazy driving of our cab driver. The journey in rush hour should take anywhere between 45-60 minutes and it took us just 30 minutes!!!!!
Although it was a good job we were early because when we tried to check in they told us our tickets were out of date as they had October 2006 on them, we did try to explain that we had bought them a long time ago and we had been travelling for a long time but they insisted on making several phone calls and at one point we had 5 people on the case. Luckily it was quiet and we weren't causing too much of a backlog. It took us a while but eventually we got boarding cards for the flight but were unable to confirm our flight with the same airline on Saturday with them for some reason!!!!
The fun did not end there as after a 3 hour wait we tried to board the flight to be told that our seats had changed which took more time to sort out, then just when we thought we had made the aircraft we got stopped by security who wanted to know why our boarding cards had not been stamped by immigration, this took a bit of explaining with us pointing at the gate for help. Again this took a few moments to sort out then we boarded and Mel had been given the wrong half of her boarding card so we had the airside crew running on the plane to swap them around!!!
At this point I looked out of the window to see if the aircraft had 2 wings!!!!
I am pleased to say that after a 40 minute delay the flight and food were really good and we landed at Incheon a little after 3pm. Seoul is 9 hours behind the UK.
We took the bus into Seoul as Incheon airport is 32 miles outside the city on an island similar to Hong Kong. It only took around 90 minutes into the city on the bus. Then we got lost again trying to find the hostel, this has been a common theme for the last 5 weeks as directions on websites are a little vague, after walking up and down the same street 4 times we went and got directions from a local hotel and just before dark we found "Holiday in Korea" Not to be confused with The Holiday Inn, Korea!!!!
Our place is a little less luxurious but it does have an under floor heating system but it was a little worrying when the guy opened our door with a credit card!!!!!
We took ourselves off for an evening meal around the Insa-Dong area and decided on an Indian meal which was OK, but for 2 vegetable curries and 2 beers it was 40,000 won/23 quid which was really pricey. The big thing on our list for here is the DMZ which we will try and visit in the next few days as well as the N Seoul Tower and Itaewon for a look around before we take the flight to Delhi on Saturday.
Lots of Love
M & M
xx
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