Before we left the ship we saw that the news was full of concerns about North Korea, but life here in the South seems to be continuing as normal. We spent the morning walking along a river admiring the cherry blossoms. It was beautiful, but it would have been easy to think that we were still in Tokyo.

After our walk I went back to the ship for lunch and Marty went into the city to buy seaweed and kimchi.  He had been told that the seaweed in South Korea was excellent.  He bought much more seaweed than I was expecting and I hope he’s planning to give some of this away as I have no idea how we would manage to use so much.