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So, finally, last week (or rather two weeks ago) Alex came over.

Sorry for the long time no posting, but i was busy as you will see.
We first spend a longer weekend in Seoul, (she arrived on Friday and we left Seoul for Daejeon on Tuesday) than a day “at home” to wash cloth and do some other refueling and then on wednesday, we were of to Tokio. Its funny and sad, but a <2 hour flight took more than 10 hours of total traveling time, which kind of sucks. We left Daejeon around 9, to arrive at the airport just in time for the plane (it takes three hours with a bus from Daejeon to the Airport, which is about 40 Minutes from Downtown Seoul. Munich Airport is close compared to that) and it took another 2 hours to get from narnita airport (Tokios airport) to Tokio. Then we had 5 days in Tokio, and then the whole tour back to Daejeon.

In Daejeon, staying there for 4 days, we had bigger trouble finding a hotel than expected. The first motel we took turned out to be a “real” “love motel” – as Koreans don’t have much privacy at home (small appartments for many ppl, etc) love motels are really really common. When you wanna get closer to your Boy/Girlfriend the only option is usually to go to either a DVD-Bang (renting a room to “watch a movie” ) or to go to a motel. Well, after this horrible first night (it was a barocke stilled, horribly kitchy room) we went to another place that was much much nicer, but also a bit more expensive. Still, we paid 30.000Won per night, so not really a lot of money.

The major happening of the next couple of days was me loosing my wallet on Wednesday night, followed by a lot of (unsuccessful) searching, calls etc. I’m still trying to recover from that

Afterwards, (so last friday) we went for two more days to seoul, this time into a much much nicer hotel than ever before, costing around 50.000W/night (less than  40€ for the room) with a 40+” TV, VOD (over a internet-computer) etc and very clean. It was a really pleasant expierence after some of the other motels.

So much for that, i’m off to sleep now. Pictures will come in due time, as will a much longer Blog article comparing these to mega-citys.

Oh yes, and:

I OWN AN IPOD- I bought it for 30.000Yen (around 180€) in the Apple-Store in Ginza, a Black Classic 80GB – and I’m freaking happy with it. Japan seems to be considerably cheaper for Computer goods than Korea, which is weird, considering that everything else in Japan is a lot more expensive than Korea