Category: Daegu
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Pass the Dongdongju…
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been taking things slow and settling into work and my flat without really meeting many people or going out much. I imagine I’ll probably end up settling into a routine of not going out all that much anyway – partly because I will be working evenings (just as…
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Missing the sky
The warrior’s now a worker and his war is underground With cordite in the darkness he milks the bleeding veins of gold When the smoking rock-face murmurs, he always thinks of you African sky blue Johnny Clegg and Savuka, African Sky Blue Daegu is a city of sky-scrapers. Sometimes when I’m moving around in buses…
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Shopping and rain
I went shopping the other day. So far in Korea, I haven’t really ventured further than my corner store, a little superette-type place down the road and the bakeries (there are three different Paris Baguette stores within easy walking distance of my flat, one on the way from the bus stop home). On Wednesday, I…