travel diary — day 200

In computers & internet, rants, travel on 23 October 2009 tagged airport, bank, bar, beer, bookmark, chess, chopsticks, christina, coex, computer, czech restaurant, dinner, email, flight, hp, korea, mongolia, security, seoul, souvenir, technomart, travel, ulaan bataar with no comments

day 196 — i spent the morn­ing online, catch­ing up with email and chess games. then in the after­noon i went out with paula to the souvenir shop. i bought a few gifts for friends, includ­ing a couple of chess sets. when i returned to the hotel i real­ised that one chess set was miss­ing a piece. so i had to walk back down to the shop and return it.

in the even­ing i joined a group of people for din­ner and beers in town. we walked down to a nice bar and had some beer. while we were there the bar man­ager asked us to move to a dif­fer­ent table, since he had a big­ger group and needed the space. i asked him for some free food as recom­pense, and he sent a few plates of snacks to our table. we were really happy and stayed longer, drink­ing more beer.

then we all walked up to the czech res­taur­ant near our hotel. we ate some din­ner and drank more beer. we talked until late and i got to bed quite late.

day 197 — today was my last day in mon­go­lia. i was short on cash and didn’t want to with­draw more. so i stayed at the hostel and did work online. i packed my bags and had a final beer at the czech res­taur­ant. my com­puter was play­ing up again, which was annoy­ing, so i didn’t have much else to do. i had a shave (which i badly needed) and went to bed.

day 198 — i was up before dawn to get to the air­port and catch my plane. i checked in and dur­ing the secur­ity check the stu­pid secur­ity bitch took my chop­sticks. she told me that they were pointy, and thus dan­ger­ous. i men­tioned that the two pens in my bag were more pointy, but she ignored me.

i walked through to the wait­ing are and decided to spend the last of my money. as i was look­ing around i saw chop­sticks for sale in the souvenir store. i cursed the secur­ity woman again. i bought a leather book­mark and boarded the plane.

i flew to seoul and christina was late to pick me up. we got the bus into seoul and i dumped my gear. then i headed to the hp ser­vice centre to get my com­puter fixed. i also stopped into the bank and went for a walk around coex.

day 199 — i spent the morn­ing relax­ing and went back to hp to pick up my com­puter in the after­noon. on the way i dropped in at tech­no­mart and looked around coex. then i took the com­puter home to rein­stall software.

day 200 — although today was my 200th day on the road, it was spent inaus­pi­ciously. i stayed at home and played on the com­puter, updat­ing soft­ware and other stuff.

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