Bucket List No 43 - Ride a bicycle built for 2. ACHIEVED!

Its been ages since we last saw our friends Katy and Danny so they decided to come and visit us in Pohang this weekend.

But first, we had a shopping trip to Daegu on Saturday morning where I found a Gap sale! Dangerous indeed and I spent a LOT of money there but got an amazing maxi dress, 4 tops, and a sun dress so it was all very much needed……as well as some spangly items from Accessorize. After a quick munch in Gorilla burger, we hopped back to Pohang and our friends arrived not long after.

My new maxi dress from Gap, which I am in love with. And clearly that's also me in the picture, yep yep yep, tall and skinny, long thick brown hair.

We went for a walk up to Sunrise Park in the incredible heat and humidity (in retrospect a bit of a mistake) and looked out over the beach and Pohang. We then walked up to iPark and took Katy and Danny to Dinomeat for a meat feast! We have become regulars in Dinomeat and the guys now recognise us. Oops.

And no trip to Pohang is complete without a trip to the beach at night to see all the fireworks (okay, small hand-held fireworks) and POSCO in all its neon glory (there is a massive steel factory in Pohang and they light it up BRIGHTLY with lots of neon every night, kind of like Blackpool).

POSCO steel works at night. Looks like a fun park no? Nope, just lots of polution and lollipops.


Fireworks for sale on the beach. For the small price of 60p to £3.00 you can have an array of gunpowder action and may also loose an eye or hand.

The following day we decided to achieve another point on my Bucket List and rented tandem bikes down at the beach. Now, seeing lots and lots of cute Korean couples cycling about made me think this would be a nice romantic, loving, relaxing, fun experience. I was wrong! Clearly, we should have realised that me and Garry both like to be in control and lack trust in each others driving/cycling skills. A few arguments ensued but we made it to the end of the coast and back with only half my toe missing - Garry thought it was funny to do a “no hands” stunt which resulted in me freaking out and using my toe (in flip flops) as a brake. Ouch. Danny and Katy, who are clearly much more in love and couply, had no accidents.

The cool kids hanging down the beach.

Me trying to make Garry really excited about riding a tandem. I'm not sure I was having much success.

Katy and Danny, who look like a Korean couple with their matching t-shirts (they promised this was an accident but I'm not so sure........)

Eager and excited! It didn't last long....


Now from the picture you cannot see the full extent of the injuries but needless to say I almost lost a toe. Tandems are dangerous.

And we all survived!

Anyway, we had a fab weekend and the work dread began to set back in again as all too soon it would be Monday once more......

Bye bye for now and thanks for reading x x x x