We went really slowly through Seoul towards Suwon. The train picked up people from Suwon and one more stop. We could not start drinking until everyone was one the train but we were already acting drunk :p.
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| The gang |
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| Drunk grandmother |
On the train there were loads of adjumma but one stood out. She was a little grandmother. When she first got on the train, she complained about her window being dirty and got free vouchers. But when the wine started pouring she loosened up. She was hugging this other waygook group and enjoyed the games. She was really funny and cute!! haha. I wish my gran was like that!!
Our snacks were some muffins, orange slices, crackers and plastic cheese etc. It wasn't too bad as I heard via other websites it was bad. But they kept re-filling the snacks :D
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| Snacks (Paul's photo) |
There was also a MC on the train. At first we played games. The first game was two passengers playing rock, paper, scissors. We the played rock, paper, scissors against the person opposite us. Me and Clara beat Paul and Sarah! Yay!! Winners!! haha
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| Rock, paper, scissors. (Paul's picture) |
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| Winners |
But then the MC started singing. And it wasn't even good. I heard there is sometimes a karaoke on the train but we just had that guy singing ><!!
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| Singing MC (Paul's picture ^^) |
We finally arrived at Yeongdong station and we took a coach to the winery. The whole area seemed to be wine country. Our lunch was a buffet and it was delicious!! Of course there was unlimited wine. We tried the white wine and it honestly was the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted. I ate kimchi just to take the taste away.
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| Lunch. |
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| The winery. |
We then went for a wine foot bath. It wasn't really a wine foot bath as that would burn your feet, but I suppose it sounds cooler than grape juice foot bath. But the foot bath was really really hot. About 38'c but it felt much much hotter!! They gave us grape juice to sip while bathing out feet.
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| Foot bath area (Paul's picture) |
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| We all look a bit sweaty as it was really hot!! |
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| feet!! |
After this we went to have a tour of the winery. The tour was in Korean. So we just messed about. To be honest not even the Koreans were paying attention.
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| Cellar |
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| wine tour |
We had 20 minutes free time. We had all seen everyone start pictures with this wine bottle sign and we wanted a go, but we could not figure out how to get up. At the end, Paul gave Clara and Sarah a lift up.
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| Thinking about how to get up (Pauls' picture) |
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| The end result (Paul's picture) |
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| Ginseng museum |
We then hopped back on the coach to the Ginseng museum. This is in Geumham. First they talked about Ginseng (I think - again this was in Korean). Then we went downstairs to make medicine parcels. Clara told us these parcels are suppose to take away bad smells. But I don't think they take away bad smells, as much as cover them with it's overpowering herb smell.
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| Making the medicine parcel (Paul's picture) |
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| Our four finished parcels (Paul's photo) |
We then went to another room with loads of ginseng in jars. there was a sign saying that these were the sexiest ginseng in Korea.
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| Sexiest ginseng. |
We then went to a room full of massage chairs etc. It was a strange thing to have on a tour but OMG, those chairs were AMAZING!! I want one! My mum had a massage seat one but it was nothing like these. But they still don't beat a real massage haha.
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| Massage chair. |
We had free time after to go around the town as it is famous for it's ginseng. We had fried ginseng as has Sarah says, "Everything taste better fried". haha
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| Fried ginseng |
Our last stop was a wine cellar that was used by the Japanese during the invasion of Korea. There were hundreds of bottles of wine in there but they said most were vinegar now.
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| Wine cellar |
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| Vinegar wine |
On the way home, we had a choice of watching a movie or having another wine tasting session. Of course we choose the wine tasting. We had the ginseng carriage this time. It wasn't as nicely decorated but it didn't have the annoying MC. They gave us the full four bottles to drink haha! An american group started a dance party, which was fun and even some adjummas came in to join. It was weird stopping at Suwon station as everyone on the platform kept looking in the train and then doing a double take!
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| Dancing |
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| Ginseng cart |
I would recommend this for a day out with friends. It cost 93,000 won. I got a co-worker to book it but I heard you can book it via information booths.
We finally arrived at Yeongdong station and we took a coach to the winery. The whole area seemed to be wine country. Our lunch was a buffet and it was delicious!! Of course there was unlimited wine. We tried the white wine and it honestly was the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted. I ate kimchi just to take the taste away.
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