Asia

Smoking, veges and baked beans…

Posted by on 10, Sep 2016 in 2016 - South Korea, Asia, South Korea, Tilly the Tandem | 0 comments

Smoking, veges and baked beans…

​Incheon to Seoul. 5 days, 87km, 135m climb Asia is not renowned for its smoke free atmosphere so it’s been a real shock to find so little smoking here.  Many streets and all bars and restaurants are non smoking and you can’t even sit outside a bar and smoke without asking the other guests if they mind. You can’t smoke in stations or infact within 10 meters of a station and you rarely see anyone smoking walking down the street. They tend to congregate in corners, often with their backs to the passers by like naughty school boys, or drug addicts, which I suppose they...

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You cannot be serious…

Posted by on 27, Aug 2016 in 2016 - South Korea, Asia, South Korea | 0 comments

You cannot be serious…

Right, I’m not keen on Asian food, we both hate hills, we’re both veggies added to which I’m, as many will know quite ‘fussy’ about my food, and I don’t like flying so where are we off to next then?   Well that’s a good question and the answer is of course,  the rather mountainous Asian country of South Korea, a place not renowned for its vegetarian food.  In fact they apparently love fish oil so much that it’s made us worry whether they put it in the coffee too. We may be using Pizza Hut a lot for the next couple of months!...

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