Day 37/38/39 - Freezing!

The temperature is now 0 degrees. It's time to leave, going outside is utterly horrible. This has reduced our ventures outside quite significantly, as it is simply painful to go out. We've spent the last couple of nights with Hans, which has resulted variously in:

• Henry dancing on the bar with a nonplussed American man and losing his only winter coat in Tinpan, a very western bar in Hongdae.


• Hans managing to make out with (I think) three different Brazilian girls over two nights in the same bar.


• Going to Itaewon to a place called Gecko's, which was basically just like an American Wetherspoons, with NO Koreans in there (we left soonish).


• Glenn doing something. He knows what.


• Brian sticking his foot in it unbelievably in the cab, and also going to M2, an electro club, and being the oldest customer by a good 10 years.


• Having to deal with Farah smashing on the door of the shower to get me out of there, and screaming her heart out in my hungover ear repeatedly until Jim and Christine got the hell up so we could go for a coffee, all the while claiming that we told her to come round. This was not the case.


• Being entirely lied to by Kate - we were promised a Drum 'n' Bass night, about which we all got very excited (hard to find anything that isn't hip-hop out here) only to find, having trekked halfway across Seoul, that it was someone playing for an hour in a gay club. we got free entry to three other gay clubs in the area, but oddly this didn't swing it.


• Meeting a load of Australian chinese-vietnamese girls and being so confused by their accents and general existence that conversation became impossible due to bewilderment.


• Finding a very strange set of coincidences today - I have encountered Cirque de Soleil in three different programs today, and Seth Rogan and his mate in three as well.


• Finding Superbad hilarious, and Knocked Up even better, while entirely understanding why almost every girl who sees the later will hate it - you are constantly put in situations where you have to side with the lazy laid-back dude and the sophisticated clever sensible lady, and you will always side with your own gender, I would say.


• Discovered the origin of the "Asian Alcohol Flush" (aka Red Tamma), in astonishing detail.


• Packed all my possessions only to find I seem to have gained about 20% extra stuff, even with vacuum packing, since being here.

Anyway, off to Osaka tomorrow. I'll be really sorry to leave these guys, it's been awesome spending so long with Leo, Jim, Henry, Christine etc. I'd love to stay longer, but (1) I need to get moving if I'm going to get everywhere I want to go, and (2) it's just too damn cold.