When you find a Love Hotel that you like….well, you stay another day! To be serious though, the real reason we stayed put was to give MaryEllen’s knees a chance to recover from a 75 km ride. We do recommend checking out Love Hotels in Korea if you are travelling here. Some are pretty rough around the edges which you can see pretty quickly but most are like this one…very clean with spacious comfortable rooms and secure, private parking for bikes. And how can you turn down a hotel which costs $40 to $50 a night including tax and sometimes breakfast as well. We also recommend Love Hotels in Japan, but they are often more over the top in their decor to suit the theme. Nonetheless, they work well for cyclists too.
The only downside of this hotel is that the view to the right is not so nice. The two businesses to the right advertise dancers and entertainment which we have avoided . However at night, it is quite a spectacle as neon lights on their buildings light up the area.
In Busan we discovered an amazing bakery/lunch place called Paris Baguette. It is a Korean chain and we see them everywhere we travel. They serve excellent coffee and we love their pastries, salads and sandwiches. Enjoying a Paris Baguette take out dinner of salad and sandwiches in our room. It is also reasonably priced.
We see these growing in fields and yards. It is interesting to see the farmer tie them around the top in preparation for harvesting and sending to market.
We have had a wonderfully mellow day of rest at the hotel…doing a hand-wash laundry, reading, working on the journal and in the afternoon we decided to go for a ride and visit the market.
This puppy is going to visit the market too with this fellow. These small white dogs are very popular in Korea.
The market takes up a couple of streets. It is quite a mellow set up, right on the road with cars continuing to drive through. Yet somehow it worked…customers wandered through on foot and nobody had a problem with it. This stand had an impressive assortment of vegetables for sale. Excellent quality.
It is such a cold day today…woke up to a temperature just above freezing with icy heavy winds. We rode slowly through the market and people were very friendly. As we admired their stall, the vendors were full of questions for us about where we are from, where are we going, and always…our trikes, what are they? Much is communicated with gestures and a bit of common language, but it works.
This woman had an amazing selection of seafood for sale.
We find this very interesting. Every hotel we have stayed at in Korea, has this device in the room to enable you to jump out in case of fire or some other disaster.
This is where you attach the lifeline in the room before exiting through the window. All hotels here (Japan too) provide robes for lounging in your room…nice amenity. It works well for me as my height is like a typical Korean, but Barry’s robe is never big or long enough.
