On Sunday after our hike the students (Jessica, Emma and Janet) drove Vickey and I to a Buddhist Temple to look around. On the way there we drove through one of the rich parts of Seoul - lots of individual houses rather than apartments. Land is very expensive here. So to be able to buy a block of land and only put one dwelling on it - rather than an apartment building for 50 or 60 families - means you must be very very rich.
Any way the area actually almost felt like home. There were trees, and each house had it's own fenced yard. It was kind of reminecent of driving through some of those back roads in Kohimaramara, St Heliers or Remuera. Some of the detailing was different, but the feel was similar. Made feel just a tiny bit homesick for the familiar. Am thinking that I might just figure out how to get back there and go walking one Sunday.
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