With a rice cooker and boil in the bag sauces, I'm not spending time learning how to do much else. I should add some extra vegetables to those meals, but apart from that it's a decent diet. Spaghetti and jars of sauce are available, and of course every store has 25% devoted to Noodles. There's some recognisable food spread around the shelves: some sausages, one packet of butter per shop, plenty of milk. At the moment I haven't got more adventurous (I can do pancakes as well, but unfortunately that's not really nutrition). More effort will be needed when I'm back on evening hours at school, and have to prepare my own lunch instead of getting it delivered like I do at the moment.
From my apartment window, at night. Past the spur of land in the distance is the beach area and some nice places to visit, apparently. I lack time, sunlight and Arctic gear for sightseeing up there now.
Not a Love Hotel in the extravagant form we know and love in those endless 'crazy Japan' reports. It's a very normal motel, but it has the reputation, apparently. I stayed there three nights until my apartment was ready. Hardly anything unusual about the place. Hardly.
Old Downtown. Has Pizza Hut and Starbucks. This is where I had my first cup of Starbucks coffee! It's ok. I think the coffee is cheaper at the local hostess bars, however.
There are two of the PC gaming rooms (Bangs). There's two more on the opposite side of the street. It's similar in every block of buildings. More common than mobile phone shops!
Doesn't get mentioned much in the english-speaking blogs of Ulsan, I suspect because it's where the shipyard workers hang out, and they don't write blogs. Anyway, it's just around the corner from my apartment, and it's a good place. Sadly, I just don't have any stories to compare to the people in there :-)
This is the view out of my apartment window, looking north. To the right of the picture there are about 30 ships anchored offshore.
