cliff hiking in the pouring rain, pancakes and plenty of rice wine

Apparently the rainy season means it is time for pancakes with all sorts of toppings in Korea together with a nice can of rice wine. We learned that quickly on our second day in Busan. But let's start at the beginning.

We decided to check out another Korean bbq restaurant for lunch together with new friends from our hostel. The food was (again) amazing and very cheap. Everyone had to sit on a chair right on the floor, which was a huge challenge for Tom. Everyone else had to laugh about him sitting down.  

 

After lunch we went to do a cliff hike along the coastline. Even pouring rain and thunder did not stop us (while Tom was humming "riders on the storm").We walked for about 4 hours through the pouring rain, enjoying the beautiful landscape and feeling very adventurous (we didn't realize that there was a road 10 meters away where busses could take us home - so we walked and walked thinking we were completely lost). 

 

 

 

At about dinner time we bumped into a Korea hiker (who was also soaking wet) and he brought us to the next bus station. Instead of taking the bus we decided to walk to the university area for dinner. We met a very cute old lady, who was baking pancakes in a garage. I don't know if it was a store or just her own garage, but somehow I walked in because it was smelling very nice. The lady was so cute and so happy, so she gave me the pancake for free! Awesome people, the South Koreans.

 

The university area has a lot of cheap restaurants and bars and loads of students. We choose the busiest restaurant which (thank god) served really nice food.. Together with our hostel friend Ian from canda we had dinner and rice wine (everyone was drinking rice wine which came in big Tea cans, yaaayyyyy!!). Next to us were 3 Koreans and we ate and drank together. We had the biggest fun while only one of them could speak broken English and the others used their phone to ask questions ("who do you think is the prettiest?"). But after some more rice wine everyone could speak some sort of language, great times!!