Trip to Busan

Wow! Today we had our biggest adventure yet. We drove 67 kilometres to Busan, the closest city to Geoje. The trip took 2 hours each way and years off our lives. We had three near misses that would have caused some serious damage to our car. It was scary and stressful to say the least! It also didn’t help that our GPS seems to be out-dated and made us go this long roundabout way. We went there thinking we’d spend the day going to the shops and then checking out a beautiful beach everyone had been telling us about. The first shop on our list was Costco, it was apparently the place to go to get everything you need for your apartment. We were so glad just to arrive and get out of the car. I think our blood pressures were through the roof! We lined up to get our members card, all foreigners need one in order to shop there. It’s only 35,000 WON and lasts forever. They processed us really quickly and we were free to shop our little hearts out. We went from aisle to aisle and never really found anything that took our fancy. Everything was bulk buy but in huge amounts, I’m talking 24 packs of baked beans etc. We got a few things but couldn’t get too much as there’s not enough room to store it all in our apartment. We thought it would be like a giant sized Kmart or Target from back home but it was nothing like that. And there wasn’t really anything there that we couldn’t get back here in Geoje, the prices were all the same too.

After spending an hour looking around we decided we’d gone through enough today and to just head straight back home. Neither of us felt up for driving any longer than was absolutely necessary.

We got home safe and sound and agreed there would be no more trips to Busan for a little while!

Off to put the feet up!

Write soon xx