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My next post will not be from Busan! This has been (and could well continue to be) the longest stop on our travels but what an opportunity we’ve had staying with the Agit people.

This weekend was the opening night of a grafitti exhibition – all week now 21 artists from Korea, Japan and USA have been staying here, working non-stop in a cloud of aerosol fumes, to leave behind one of the most colourful buildings I have seen in a long time.

Early in the morning we all moved to Samyeon – another shopping and entertainment district – to continue the celebrations. These Korean party zones are always good fun; hundreds and hundreds of eating and drinking places mixed in with discos, video arcades, kareoke rooms, pool halls, baseball courts and more – all crammed next to each other on the roads, in tents on the sidewalk, gaps between buildings, other gaps behind those gaps and all the way up to the top floor of the buildings themselves.

For me, that’s the strangest bit, going from floor to floor in a glass elevator looking for the next bizarre establishment…

Aug 152010
 

One sunny morning the news crews descended on Earthcircuit to grill them about their life, motives and journey from far away…

Jul 192010
 

We’re out of the Ural Mountains which were neither almost impassable nor full of bandits – both things we’d been told by daft truckers back west. Now we’re trying to decide if that means we are now in Asia, and thus Siberia, since, traditionally, Europe stops at the Urals.

Overnight we’d stopped near the road by a river in quite a beautiful spot once the anti-mosquito cream had been applied. To get there was a bit of an angle from the road but it didn’t look too bad and I argued it was a good chance to test the vehicles’ ability to get in and out of tight spots. Getting down was O.K. – just a little scraping on the low points of both trucks but getting back on the road in the morning… Well, we should have reversed out, keeping the same successful orientation of the vehicles because the Iveco nearly tipped over while Jigsaw nearly pulled the back lights off – something I had wanted to do anyway (repositioning them higher up) but in a more controlled fashion.

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