Category: Daegu

  • Pizza with potato and Vietnamese noodles

    Monday saw me trying Korean Pizza for the first time. Pizza here isn’t a completely different experience from pizza in other countries. For the most part, in fact, it’s pretty much the same. Inevitably at this distance, however, there are small variations. Previously, I have only tried Pizza Baguettes from the bakeries – pizza topping…

  • Downtown part 1: A park, a church and Herbal Medicine Street

    Downtown part 1: A park, a church and Herbal Medicine Street I started teaching on 6 July 2009, so Wednesday this week was exactly one month. Given that and the fact that I’m also finally comfortable with the complicated bus system (and I know how get a taxi if I’m stranded because one of the…

  • Health check and Banwoldang

    Last week was included a visit to a hospital, not because I was ill or injured but because part of moving to a new country (or at least Korea) is a health-check. And Korea does not trust foreign doctors, or at least not doctors from SA, so I had to have the health check here.…