Trip to Sangju!

This weekend, we headed to the south coast to Sangju beach. The bus from Namhae to Sangju was a beautiful scenic trip of coastal mountains. Once we reached Sangju our first port of call was to find somewhere to stay for the night. We wondered around inquiring at minbaks and pensions. Whilst heading out of one of the pensions, an elderly woman beckoned us over to her minbak. We followed her to have a look. The room itself wasn't too bad but the problem was that Ed couldn't fit in the corrider as his head slided along the ceiling as he walked. The shower was also a tap on the wall. The woman was very keen on us taking the room whilst Ed was continually banging his head on the ceiling to try to explain to her why we didn't want it. She was quite a scary woman, we were genuinely a bit scared that she might have put some sort of curse of us as we left. We eventually found a friendly minbak to stay in above a samgyupsal restaurant. We spent the day on the beach which was great fun. We rented tubes and went swimming in the sea and played some games. Later in the day we decided to try to explore some of the area around the beach. A map we found outside the information point highlighted that there was a good view point just along from the beach so we decided to check it out. We think that the map must have been made quite a while back as when we reached the view point it was surrounded by barbed wire and was very weedy!! Nevertheless we got some good pictures overlooking the beach.

Most of the restaurants surrounding the beach were raw fish so we decided to try out the samgyupsal restaurant that we were staying above. It was delicious! After we had feasted on pork, we made our way back to our room but we were intercepted by the owner who beckoned us down some stairs into the basement. We were quite apprehensive of what was going on as walls along the stairs were covered in a sort of neon space theme with planets and aliens. He then revealed to us his 1980s style singing room. From the smell, it seemed to have a serious damp problem. There wasn't anyone there, so we assumed business was slow. He was quite disappointed when we declined.

The following day, we went back to the beach. We bought a beach ball and an LED frisbee (which didn't light up disappointingly!). It was more overcast and windy than the previous day, so we foolishly thought we would be ok without suncream for a couple of hours. How wrong we were. We got the bus from Sangju back up to Namhae then on to Masan. On the bus ride home, we both got progressively hotter and more red. By the time we reached home we were in desperate need of some moisturiser! Here are some photos of our trip: