We leave Seoul early tomorrow morning and have spent the last two days enjoying the autumn colours and air with my friend Youngae. Yesterday, we walked the full length of a gorgeous path based on a disused railway line that used to connect to Seoul to North Korea:
We started at the quiet end where elderly men were playing some kind of Korean game with counters:
As we progressed, the trees were stunning in their autumn colours:
From time to time, the old railway line reappeared;
It became less rural and more urban as the usual characters appeared:
And of course there were toilets:
Today’s walk by the Han River which flows through Seoul was also stunning
The riverside is used for many purposes including, at the right time of day, wedding photo shoots (well, photos to go in the wedding album) and we watched these being choreographed, even though the poor brides would have been frozen as the sun set:
Each bridal party had a trolley with all the clothes and accessories and I loved this one which came with a dog!
We leave with many happy memories, and we leave you with four images which seem to us to summarise the jumble of traditional, modern, human and techie that is Seoul
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Dog in one of the wedding photos looks very unimpressed! Thank your lovely dispatches, safe journey and v much looking forward to seeing you soon!