Getting lost and found again

I went into Seoul to visit the Chicken Arts Museum. How could I resist? Unfortunately, it was closed, but if I understood the sign correctly it should be open again in a few weeks. So I wandered through the neighborhood, which turned out to be a traditional style area. I'm not sure if it was actually preserved that way over a few hundred years, or has been reconstructed, or both. I'm guessing some of both, what with there having been a war here back in the 1950s.

Anyway, it was a really nice change from the skyscraper zones (both commercial buildings and ugly high-rise apartments) that seem to cover so much of Seoul. I wandered upon a traditional folk painting museum and an embroidery museum too. They were both so small that I was the only visitor. The woman in the painting museum served me complimentary green tea!

As I was walking back toward the subway, I stopped at a little grocery with a sign reading "Organic Foods" out front. There were boxes of cereal for approximately $16! I got some more reasonably priced snacks.

By then I was craving coffee. Any of you readers who know me well know that this is not uncommon. Most of the coffee I've had here has been awful except, sad to say, at Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. So, although I was tempted to go into a place advertising beer and coffee because it had a neon image of Bart Simpson out front, I passed and opted for Dunkin Donuts.

When I left DD, I discovered that I was very near the area where I'd gotten painfully lost a few weeks ago. There was something very satisfying about that.