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Sunday we took a bus up to jinhae to go to the cherry blossom festival. As most
of you have seen from my facebook photos, the cherry blossoms in Spring in Korea
are sooooo pretty! They are everywhere and it completely transforms this drab
looking grey wintery city into a little spring in itself.
However the cherry
blossoms did arrive very early this year so when we got to jinhae they were
already falling down and more were on the floor than on the trees but it was
still a pretty sight! WE also arrived just in time to see the parade that goes through the down, I think it is done by the members of the Korean army and navy.
The town of Jinhae
itself was also a great experience, I never knew such friendly Korean people existed!
We were carted into almost every coffee shop and food store in sight to come
and sample some kind of treat and get asked all the usual ‘where are you from?’
‘Why are you in korea?’
questions.
There
were huge tents with all sorts of food displayed, some of the stranger were
stuffed squid, pigs feet and whale. Yes, whale! Now I have tried every kind of
creepy crawly this country has to offer from bugs to chicken feet to intestines
but WHALE is one thing I just cannot bring myself to try. If anything I think it’s
more of a matter of principal than anything else, I think killing whales is
just unbelievably sad! And from the way Koreans treat animals I am gonna say it’s
pretty much a given that they are not killed in a very nice humane way.
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