Ah. A weekend to go visit another part of lovely Korea. Joseph and I had a 5 day weekend as our Summer Break for the Korean students so we took the wonderful opportunity to visit Kate this past weekend and Kate did a great job playing hostess and taking us about to explore her city: Gwangju.
Joseph and I have discovered a variety of trains running in South Korea. You have the fast train and the slow train. The only difference is the money you pay for each and the time is not that different. Perhaps 30 minutes or so depending. We decided upon the slow train as it was cheaper and we didn't really care if it was 39 minutes slower than the fast train. Something interesting was that passengers are not subjected to a person coming through the train cars to view or stamp your train ticket. There is a line that says "We Trust You" at the entrance of the train station that only passengers are allowed to cross. *giggle*
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| The line at the train station that only paid customers are allowed to cross. |
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| The AC unit |
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| The Slow Train (older train) |
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| The AC unit really puts out a lot of power and it's easy to see why people crowd around it. |
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| Ready and waiting to board the train to Gwangju |
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| The Fast Train "KTX" |
Train stations here are very nice and it reminds me of busy train stations at home in larger cities. There are several AC stations where locals and foreigners alike crowd around to keep cool in the humid air. Even though we rode the slow train we were very comfortable. The seats are assigned just as on a bus. Each pair of seats also has acces to their own AC vents. A surprising find was that we discovered there was more room in the train seats than on a business class airplane seat.
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| Rose Garden: Chosun University |
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| Rose Garden: Chosun University |
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Kate showed us the university near her which is called Chosun University. It is very pretty with parks and a beautiful Rose Garden.
On our return home we took the slow train again and had a relaxing and uneventful remainder of our 5 day Summer Vacation.
On our return to Daejeon we saw this sign posted:
Love the "we trust you" sign! Awesome.
ReplyDeleteJenny W.