A Daegu Weekend

Last weekend Will showed up for three nights in Daegu on his return trip to Saigon from Atlanta. It happened on very short notice but it was a fun weekend. I last saw Will in February 2014 on his last night in Korea, after a huge Seoul trip the previous weekend.

Will cabbed to my place after 24 hours of travelling from Atlanta via Toronto and Vancouver on Air Canada. We dropped his stuff off and went out to Sangin. My old favourite BBQ place has been totally redone, and has a military motif, with water in canteens and tables camouflage walls. The meat was also different. To be honest I didn't like it, which sucks because it was one of my favourite places for BBQ in Korea. However we still had a good time. We also managed our way to the beer tunnel, which I never go to anymore, so that was fun.

Saturday Will was beat, which is very understandable. He was also going to Zeke's that night, so we decided to just relax up at Lake Park and then head to Zeke's house. We went past his old neighbourhood and up to the reservoir to see a few old spots and have a drink. After that we dropped by Zeke's place for a whisky and a quick tour. I like Zeke's house a lot. I think he is looking at another year or two in Korea and so has put some nice things in to his apartment. With Yen gone and so much of my stuff in boxes my apartment has taken on a bit of a warehouse feel. Being in a real home was kinda nice. I want to do the same thing to my next place, wherever that may be. We then went out with Ezekiel and had delicious but very pricey beef BBQ and drinks at a really cool place downtown that I've never been to before. They had great cuts of meat and drinks from all over Korea, including stuff I have never seen anywhere else. Hallasan soju was a neat first, only available on Jeju-do apparently.

I saw the boys in Sangin again on Sunday morning for breakfast and again on Monday morning for a coffee before Will headed to Dong Daegu station and back to Saigon. I'll see Will again in November, so it wasn't a big goodbye or anything. Still, it was cool having him back in the neighbourhood for the weekend, just like old times.

I also went harder on food and drink than I have at any time since Tokyo. I hate to admit this but I just can't do it anymore. I've been tired all week, though a couple of early mornings have probably contributed to that. Still, I have a weekend of finishing my paper once and for all ahead of me, and I am surprisingly okay with that.