Discovering a Local Park

A fun morning. We had talked about going to the main market downtown, but in the end we just walked out the gate into the Anjeong Ri section of Peongtaek. We followed a cobblestone street lined with restaurants, bars, groceries and tourist shops. Erika called it "the ville". I bought some long-handled spoons for ice tea and malts. They sell lovely sets with matching stainless chop sticks, but I have plenty of chop sticks.

We wandered further than Erika has been before and then turned left to come back on a parrallel street, except we could see a green hill ahead. It turned out to be an old hill fort with earthen fortifications like in my novel Honddu Vale. It was a great place to explore.

We walked around the top of the walls. Inside was a pleasant grassy area with trees and crisscross paths.

The top of the wall felt like a great spot to picnic, or at least feel the breeze and look out over the rice paddies.

You have to remember that this is in the middle of the city with crowded highrises all around. A delightful find, an easy walk from the gate.

There was a sign in English to tell us all about it.

"Were generally came into of being"? If you're not sure you know much more after reading than you did before, here is a website that might work better for you, expecially if you have no idea when the Three Kingdoms Period is.

On the way home we stopped at a little Korean hole-in-the-wall restaurant for bibimbap and fried dumplings. The bibimbap (rice and vegetables) turned out to not be what Erika was expecting--cold, not hot--but it wasn't bad. The dumplings dipped in soy sauce were very nice, and it made a cheap lunch to wind up our adventure.