8 April 2024
Steak night
Gyeongju shopping area
Tonight's outing was short, local and filled with cubes of steak.
Then my computer broke. After some stern words with it and a few unexpected blue screens of death followed by dell diagnostics telling me everything is fine, it now seems to be working again. It decided to throw a fit right as I was adjusting the brightness of the steak photo. So that probably explains why it broke then, dell hates beef.
It is very quiet here on a Monday night. Many things were shut. I kept an eye on the tombs, in case there were tomb raiders, or zombies. The worst I saw was some young girls racing around on full sized scooters, Korean girls too young to be riding them, and they were behaving like idiots screaming and weaving around. They also had bluetooth speakers mounted on them blasting some kind of chipmunk voiced k-pop.
The other thing of note, I was wandering around when a long haired middle aged Korean man asked me where I was from, so I tell him Australia, next thing he asks is, you like heavy metal music? So we chat for a while, he owns a local vinyl (record) store, despite never being outside of Korea his English was excellent. He then tells me he is very rich, the store is a hobby, and we should go out drinking and talk about heavy metal music - his shout. I tell him I do not drink, he refused to believe that an Australian is not an alcoholic, all Australians he meets are alcoholics etc.
So I either let down a genuine Korean man who just wanted to talk music, or I escaped a situation which would have ended up with me tied up naked inside a guys dungeon (burial tomb).
Tonight will be mostly photos of nice looking streets. Here is one.
Here is another. There are temporary water pipes running above many of the streets and some are dug up. They must be replacing the water main. Reminds me of home where that has been going on for about 4 years now.
See, more elevated water pipes and some of the street dug up. Very quiet tonight.
Apparently this is gold street. There is a lot of interesting lighting along many of the streets.
Behold, the granddaddy of all funeral mounds. So grand that awesome trees grow out of it!
And finally, the cube steak dinner that crashed my computer. Note that the picture I ordered from did not come with chips, the rice was on the plate, along with vegetables. Instead I got chips and salad, and rice on the side. Still it was delicious, the steak was of a high quality and cooked in something pleasantly chilli infused.
Tomorrow may be a hiking day of sorts, I suspect the trail behind the main tourist attraction is currently cut short. I shall go and find out.