Big Bear Okpo, Italian Restaurant

Upstairs is the place for the Thursday coffee, tel. 055-687-6870

This is the restaurant where the first Thursday of the month, Seamax hold a coffee morning.
But you can also go there for a lunch, meal or coffee.


Americano

To the right, or to the left afterwards

Directions;
1. Coming from the tunnel at road 14 into Okpo, turn after Beverly Hills II, to the right. You can park here and walk a bit.
a. Or you turn to the right just before restaurant El Gitano, and at the end of the little street to the left. Big Bear is at the left side.



b. Or you take the road opposite Paris Baguette to the right, and turn right again. At this crossing.

To the right coming from road 14 and left coming from 58, opposite Paris Baguette

The road from road 14 towards road 58 (Starbucks road), is also called "restaurant road".
2. Coming from road 58, you turn left after the S-Oil and before GS market, drive uphill and go left at the crossing with Paris Baguette. Or turn left after El Gitano.
3. Coming from road 58, turn right after GS market at your right side, before the S-Oil. See above for the rest.

Road 58 Okpo or "Starbucks road"

Road 58 vieuw towards Deokpo

From road 14 you can turn to road 58 at this point, where you reach this wall at the trafic light. Depends from which direction you are coming:
1. To the left if you come from Suwol, Gohyeon.
2. To the right if you come from the tunnel to Okpo.

Road 14

Road 14 and connection to 58 at Okpo,

Road 14 coming from the tunnel (or Jisepo, Janseungpo) or just before the tunnel into Okpo.

Road 14 from tunnel to Okpo, Suwol and Gohyeon.

 

Turn to right äfter this building.

This road connects number 58 and 14: " Foreign restaurant road".

"Foreign restaurant road"

A Twosome place coffee shop at Windy Hill

Since 16 January it's possibel to drink coffee at Windy Hill and have a bite.
A Twosome Place opens it doors, the business hours are from 9.00 a.m. till 9.00 p.m..

Open from 9.00 - 21.00 hour



It's situated at the parking lot on the second floor of the buildingd (depends on the counting).

 

Windy Hill, nice for an easy hike.

 

Crab restaurant in Goheyon

If you order the "crab-menu", you will get quite a few dishes for a starter and the crab is served as the main dish. One crab is enough for 4 persons.

At the second floor you can sit "normal".

Starters

Main dish

Directions: coming from Okpo/Suwol, entering Goheyon, you have the harbour at your right-hand-side, and after the trafic lights of the crossing with the main shopping street, you can find this building at your left-hand-side.
Driving further, you reach D-cube (Home Plus).

MAISAN PROVINCIAL PARK

By Jacquie Lambert

After 2 months settling into our new Korean life we did our first road trip. On the advice of Lonely Planet guide we headed 2 hrs northwest to the town of Jinan and the tiny Maisan

Provincial Park recommended in the guide. There are a couple of good hotels close to the

park in the small town. You can contact me for more information on staying in the area if

you want.

The park itself has two main attractions. One is its twin peaks called the Horse Ear Peaks for obvious reasons. One is male named Sutmaibong and the other female named An-maibong, the only ‘couple peaks’ in the world and our hotel room had a lovely view of them. The other attraction is the Tapsa Temple, an unusual Buddhist Temple. Over 30 years from 1885, a

single monk built over 100 stone pagodas there, some over 10 meters high without cement and of which 80 or so are still standing. The temple is jammed into one end of a stone canyon at the foot of the Horse Ears peaks and is quite spectacular. There is also a temple above the Tapsa Temple in a

meadow nearly between the Horse Ears themselves that has lovely summer flowers allaround it. There are many other walks in the area. We saw no other foreigners while we were there and no English was spoken though the pamphlet had some translations for us.  It was never a problem and the coffee from the cart was great as were the BBQ ribs.

It is a 1 to 1 ½ hr walk up and then between the ears over the scalp and down the other side.

There are car parks on the north and south side and you can walk one way to the opposite car park and catch a bus back. On the north side, the first part has a lot of steps but once. through the ears the other side is a gentle sloping path and an easy walk. You can park in the south car park if you want to avoid the steps and walk up the easier pathway to the temples and then back down the way you came. There is a reservoir lake you walk past with

fun swan boats to hire, a camping ground on the south side and the lower south path is lined with some good street style outdoor eating establishments, coffee carts, craft sellers etc and there are lots of toilets. The hole path is lined with cherry blossom trees so in spring the

walk up/down the south side would be magical. We thought the area was beautiful and well
worth a visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geoje - Seoul Bus Timetable

 

From Coens:

1) Gohyun - Seoul (Nambu) Express-Bus Timetable

Dep.Gohyun Dep.Gohyun          Dep.Gohyun       Dep.Seoul Dep.Seoul    Dep.Seoul

 5:40                11:30               16:30       6:40         12:30         17:30  

 6:20                12:00               17:00       7:20         13:00         18:00  

 7:00                12:30               17:30       8:00         13:30         18:30  

 7:40                13:00               18:00       8:30         14:00         19:00  
 8:20                13:30               18:30       9:00         14:30         19:30  
 9:00                14:00               19:00       9:30         15:00         20:00  
 9:30                14:30               19:30     10:00         15:30         22:00  
10:00               15:00               20:00     10:30         16:00         23:10   
10:30               15:30               22:15     11:00         16:30         24:00   

11:00               16:00               22:40     11:30         17:00 

                                                     24:00     12:00         

 

 

* Location: Nambu Bus terminal (1446-1, Seocho dong, Seocho gu, Seoul)

* Transit time: 4hrs ~ 5hrs

* Schedules can be changed without advance notice
  TO BE THE WORLD’S BEST SERVICE PROVIDER IN THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY, http://www.coens.com/eng/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  


 

Schumann & Clara at Chilcheondo

A nice place to drink coffee, tea or something else and they have tasty desserts. But they don't open before 11.00 a.m.. Closed: First Tuesday of the month.

Almost situated under the bridge.

 

Nice desserts



Directions: take road 5 to the north of Geoje. Follow the signs to Chilcheondo. After crossing the bridge you go to the right, then the first road to the right again. Follow this road, go under the bridge and there is  "Clara's" at your right-hand-side. You will find two other places to drink also.

Weather and Rainy season

The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) is a participating member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The following was taken from the KMA site.

“The Republic of Korea lies in the temperate zone with four distinct seasons… It has a wide temperature difference between summer and winter and much precipitation in comparison with that of the Continent. Also, it has distinct monsoon wind, a rainy period from the East-Asian Monsoon locally called "Changma", typhoon, and while often heavy snowfalls in winter. It belongs to a relatively wet region due to much more precipitation than that of the world average.”

http://web.kma.go.kr/eng/biz/climate_01.jsp

High humidity - Summer in Korea

Coens; 120713 Monsoon Season

Rainy season begins: weather agency

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130617000760

Beware of infections during rainy season

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130620001001

5 Strategies for Surviving the Rainy Season (2012)

http://theasianpersuasion.org/articles-about-korea/expat-life-in-korea/5-strategies-for-surviving-the-rainy-season

Surviving Monsoon in Style (Weekender, 2009)

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2013/04/199_46255.html

Be Prepared

Register with your embassy. Consult their site for suggestions about preparing for emergencies and natural disasters as well as checklists from employers. Batten down. Stock up. Do you have all you need on hand in order to survive a few days: a) without power and water; b) with all that “together time”?

 More sites for weather watchers

• KMA: Typhoon information, satellite imagery, and typhoon track predictions                        http://web.kma.go.kr/eng/weather/typoon/prediction.jsp

• WMO: Severe Weather Information, Western North Pacific Ocean and South China Sea Region, current tropical cyclone Information http://severe.worldweather.wmo.int/tc/wnp/index.html

 

•  WMO: Terminologies and Acronyms used in the region of Western North Pacific andthe South China Sea by the Typhoon Committee Members http://severe.worldweather.wmo.int/tc/wnp/acronyms.html 
• Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWS): floods, storms, seismic activity, volcanoes, drought, locusts, and El Nino / La Nina, http://www.hewsweb.org/hp/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So-dong, Dal.Komm and A Two some Place

At Sodong there are a few coffee shops.

In the building of Beverly Hills Waterfront is Dal.Komm Coffee.

Building Beverly Hills Waterfront

At the right side (in a new place) A Two Some Place just opened.

Third floor, with terrace

And if you like Starbucks, you can go to the Daemyung Resort, the Starbucks is inside the building.
Those places are all along road 14 from Jangseungpo to Nambu.