Weygook ...

I know you have all been waiting for the unveiling of the Korean term for "ferenge". So this weygook and Dizzy spent a lovely 3-4 hours strolling the streets of Seoul. The first stop was Itaewon (ee-tay-wahn) for breakfast. I commented after a while how Canadian football was showing on TSN. Say what? Dizzy pointed out the owner of the Sam Ryan's pub is Chris from ... tada ... London ON. Hence the thirst for TSN. I had a burger and Dizzy some sausages and eggs then the trek began. Itaewon is reportedly a very waygook-centric area and it was. There were all the way from high-end clothing and designer stuff to knock-offs of bags and other types of accessories for the young lady types. We walked for quite a while.

The biggest attraction at Itaewon was the opening of the first Taco Bell in Seoul. It was here 11 years ago but since Dizzy was not here, it went belly-up. Some of her friends are thirsting for meat laced with imitation Mexican spices and calories necessary to a central American country's knock-off fast food joint. Taco-Hell ... think outside the pun.

We then cabbed it to Dongdaemun (dong-day-mun) that was in the older part of the city. I do like the new areas but always the older areas better. Dongdaemun was an ongoing assortment of the sorts of fare one expects to find in an outdoor merkato in Asia or Africa. I bought a vest to wear with a zillion pockets. The body of the vest is mesh so it will not be as hot as my cooler-weather Columbian vest which I prefer. I bought a small battery-operated alarm clock to replace the pink one from Sabit in piassa part of Addis that I lost. We finally cabbed it back to Dizzy's.