Busan ferry

Again the ferry experience was totally unexpected from what has gone before in other Asian countries.This time we were on a large ferry with very smooth seas and set for 11 hours. The food served was fresh tasty and hot..no slops. We settled into our room , which slept 10 in bunks, quite early as there was absolutely nothing to do ..no show girls. The only downside was the snoring but that was nearly negated by the hum of the ship. Up at 5.00am for a 6.00am departure. Now anyone travelling, knows rocking up to strange cities without a booking is always interesting. Well at 6.00am even more so. We wandered around the first district but it looked a bit seedy so hopped on to the subway with the throngs of office workers.We certainly looked odd with our back packs, dishevelled and hungry. We decided to go to a place called Hyundae beach..by then it was around 7.30am and of course too early to find accomodation so we camped out on a wall and ate some cereal we had managed to buy the day before. What a sight this time for the joggers, walkers and again the men in suits. One great thing about travelling at the end of a season is that the hotel rooms are about the same price as a hostel so we decided to treat ourselves to a "posh" hotel for $30 a double. Which considering we could see the beach in the most expensive area of Busan was a bargain. Next we decided to find Kevin Rudd our prime minister. he was in Busan for the APEC conference. We looked high and low for him...no luck.The Fish market was spectacular to say the least but no Therese(his wife) doing the shopping for dinner. I think we have never seen so many fish in markets as we have seen in Korea. They can't possibly eat it all. They eat anything from the sea so we saw interesting creatures for sale all alive and kicking in huge aquariums. Nick must have have taken 50 photos of fish etc in tanks. It is a nice place but we were keen to get out to the country areas and meet Shon's (cser) family. So next day to Gyeon-gu.