Merry Christmas Everyone

Here's a couple of shots of us celebrating Christmas. We ate at a Canadian style bar in Itaewon called the Rocky Mountain Tavern. They served a turkey dinner with gravy, mashed spuds and cranberry jelly. It was good to spend the day stuffing ourselves as per tradition. We also drank alot as they suppplied a never ending jug of beer. The party we were with included Marie and her parents, Ian, Sun Mi and Alfie who are teachers at our school.

Merry Christmas to family and friends. I did miss you all.

Hamsters and Chilly activities

This is Insadong in November. Clare and I went on a Christmas shopping expedition and the place was alive with traditional activities. Korean sweets were being made and sold on the street with long cold queues of Koreans waiting to buy them. At one point there was a parade of drummers that bounded past clashing their brass drums.

It was getting quite cold at this time so I bought myself a new hat which you can see both Clare and I modelling below.

I never thought that I would get such good use out of a hat with fur line ear flaps! Clare calls it my Hamster hat as it makes me look like a hamster and perhaps the fur is Hamster too. The hamster in the photo is Heungbu. She and her brother had to be seperated as they were becoming too familiar with one another. We thought she was a girl. Her brother has gone to live with Sun Mi across the hall so the can keep in touch but not make minature inbred hamsters.