Saturday, we were in cultural mood and the weather had significantly improved - at least for the day. So we chose to take a look at the Jogyesa Temple, the main temple of the largest Buddhist community in Seoul, which is also intended to present Buddhism to outsiders. It's quite a beautiful site and one of the few buildings in Seoul, that are strikingly asian in architecture. There was currently a worship going on, so we decided against intruding and instead continued on to the traditional Korean shopping street,
also located in Insa-dong. Of course, these kinds of visits always end with lots of green, pretty bills leaving our wallets toward strikingly smiling faces of Korean shop owners. We tried all kinds of little foods, that were prepared in little stands on the street, tasted a handful of different Korean teas and looked at everything from wooden pencil holders, to artsy curtains to chop sticks in every imaginable design. I fell for one of the hand-painted curtains of an asian temple in rough nature, which will certainly look glorious on my wall at home next to the world map and Jessica Alba. We all decided that an areas such as this must be found and visited before leaving here. With darkness slowly falling over Seoul, we moved on to the night-life and dining area a few steps further. We had a typical Korean dinner - not quite as extreme
as the octopuss might suggest, though. Afterwards we settled for an extremely American desert: Cold Stone. For all of you who are unaware of what that is: change this as soon as possible. At Cold Stone they mix a variety of soft ice creams with all manners of delicious deserts: brownies, apples, chocolate sauce, orio cookies,... They basicly mush and crush it all together on a cold stone right in front of you (hence the name, in case you hadn't guessed) to create a glorius composition of ice cream you really should try.
Saturday, we were in cultural mood and the weather had significantly improved - at least for the day. So we chose to take a look at the Jogyesa Temple, the main temple of the largest Buddhist community in Seoul, which is also intended to present Buddhism to outsiders. It's quite a beautiful site and one of the few buildings in Seoul, that are strikingly asian in architecture. There was currently a worship going on, so we decided against intruding and instead continued on to the traditional Korean shopping street, 
also located in Insa-dong. Of course, these kinds of visits always end with lots of green, pretty bills leaving our wallets toward strikingly smiling faces of Korean shop owners. We tried all kinds of little foods, that were prepared in little stands on the street, tasted a handful of different Korean teas and looked at everything from wooden pencil holders, to artsy curtains to chop sticks in every imaginable design. I fell for one of the hand-painted curtains of an asian temple in rough nature, which will certainly look glorious on my wall at home next to the world map and Jessica Alba. We all decided that an areas such as this must be found and visited before leaving here. With darkness slowly falling over Seoul, we moved on to the night-life and dining area a few steps further. We had a typical Korean dinner - not quite as extreme
as the octopuss might suggest, though. Afterwards we settled for an extremely American desert: Cold Stone. For all of you who are unaware of what that is: change this as soon as possible. At Cold Stone they mix a variety of soft ice creams with all manners of delicious deserts: brownies, apples, chocolate sauce, orio cookies,... They basicly mush and crush it all together on a cold stone right in front of you (hence the name, in case you hadn't guessed) to create a glorius composition of ice cream you really should try.
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