Return to lockdown

So as I said in my first post from Seoul we are now under even stricter lockdown conditions. Not only is the hotel gym closed but annoyingly the whole floor the gym is on! Which due to complicated lift reasons now means I have to travel from the 29th Floor to the 41st Floor to the 1st Floor to the 7th Floor to then walk 2 flights of stairs to the 9th Floor to reach my production desk! It’s like Mario…

I didn’t go out last night anyway but bars and restaurants are now closed after 9pm for sitting in. I went to the supermarket at the bottom of the building and got some lovely Korean craft beer and retired to my room to watch the F1! The Weizen was my favourite. I have been eating during our dinner break (6 till 7) so at the moment getting food isn’t really an issue but it’s going to make after work beers difficult! The coffee shop near the hotel you now have to sign in, take your temperature and it’s take away only! Probably due to the fact a large cluster of COVID cases in Seoul were linked to a Starbucks.

Currently the restrictions are only for a week, but I can’t see them not increasing that. Hopefully we see COVID cases drop here, the last few days has certainly seen a flattening rather than an increase.

However work is going well in the theatre and we are ahead of schedule currently which is good. I’ve been having some lovely food, which is all pretty cheap! That bibimbap set in the pictures below is £9, and it comes in a sizzling stone bowl still cooking!

When I was last here in 2013 I tried and loved some Korean Pineapple custard cream biscuits! I took loads of packs home but despite looking in every Korean or Asian food shop in the UK I could never find them again so I presumed they were just a limited release and gave up.

But no… THEY’RE HERE! And as good as I remember with my morning coffee!

This entry was posted on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 10:55 am