It’s been a rough weekend. My sinuses bothering me got me tired out; I didn’t get to go out for a long ride as I usually do on the weekends. Then this morning I got up for church at my typical time, took some medicine, and ended up sleeping through both services (fortunately one is recorded).
I’m looking forward to a nice shower and bed time.
But there was one thing that made the day worthwhile. A trip south of Ch’eonan to scout a possible cycling route led to some breathtaking views and a great drive up and over a pass I was hoping to ride (it’s going to be quite the climb, but doable).
But even nicer, on the way back we passed Oeam Folk Village (“another” folk village because it’s lesser known than the big one near Suwon) southwest of Asan. We’d visited before to eat some p’a-jeon with dong-dong ju, one of those great combinations I’d mentioned in an earlier post (dong-dong ju is a rice wine in the same family as makgeolli but some think it lighter and sweeter and thus better). The uniqueness of this particular folk village is that people still live in a lot of the homes, so while they have an area set aside near the entrance that allows you to get a very close look at the styles and architecture, most of the rest of the village is just good to walk through for layout and styles. Most of the homes are thatch-roofed (except for those of the higher-ranking officials) and some of them are set up for small shops (tea, coffee, traditional candy – not many open at the moment), but the main point is that you get to see a basic village layout as it was long ago (except that instead of donkeys you ‘ll see cars).
So we paid the 4,000 won to take a walk and enjoyed it despite the growing heat of the day.
And then we finished up with our p’ajeon and dongdongju.
I’ll chalk this up then to a decent day….