I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Korea has been really kind to us. We’re getting by with very little korean, but it’s been unexpectedly easy. Most shopkeepers we’ve met speak to us in mandarin (when japanese fails), which is great.

We saw two palaces – the pic above is from Gyeongbukgong, but the Biwon one we visited yesterday is so much prettier. We even ran into some Singaporeans there.

And in the afternoon we hung out with Heesun, who very kindly brought us around Insadong, which is very cool. We ended off the night with dinner at a really good Italian restaurant in an cool, hip area (forgot what it was called) south of the Han River.

Suffice to say, I’m liking it so far.