Daegu visited

Daegu has been on my radar screen for ages, but I keep mixing it up with Daejon so I never get there.  I had just heard that one of these Dae's wasn't very good.  And what I found out was, Dae-Jon like John Doe, the guy you have nothing on, and Dae gu, which is halfway to goood.

The feeling seemed always to be sleepy.  Even in the Love motel where we got plonked on the Saturday night, the noise was moderate and mellow and there wasnt a lot of randiness.  Local characters, while not perfectly welcoming were at least in no great hurry to push past you and get nowhere like the Seoulites.  It is a city that seems to be at that pleasant point of globalisation where the foreigner, while no longer anything new, is infrequent enough to not yet be an annoyance. 

We went along to an Amusement Park in Duryu Park called E-World.  Have you ever been to an Amusement park in Korea and afterwards said, "A theme park should not have this many people, you should be able to get on rides with a small wait, and not have annoying people in your face all day?  And it should be cheap."  Well, E-World in Daegu is that place.  A ticket was 28,000.  You could get it for 14,000 with some resourcefulness, some negotiation at the ticket booth, the right mix of credit cards, and some luck.   

We tried the Viking, which resembled a public spa; there were people lining both ends and nobody in the middle.  A rollercoaster called the Boomerang did its course, hesitated, and went backwards to the start.  For the record, its not twice as much fun if you do a roller coaster backwards, especially one with a couple of loops.  We tried a roller coaster called The Camel.  And one called The Hurricane.  It must have been called that, not because it span you fast, but because it was all over in a matter of seconds, and like any hurricane, it left a mess.  In your stomach.  Since it was so brief a ride, there hadn't been enough time for a queue to build up so the guy said at the end, when you pulled back in to the safety of the station, "who doesnt want to go around once more?"  I didnt, but even more, I didn't want to be the weak white guy who wanted to get off and so my hand stayed down and my stomach got shook up again.

E-World also had a ghost house that must have been modelled on the marathon, it was that long.  You needed rest stops and water breaks to get through it.  You turned left and right more than a tennis fan's neck in a big five setter and still you were in darkness, as shifty chuckles and screams resonated in the background.  Take your claustrophobic or Achluophobic friend in there and they will either be cured of their fears due to prolonged exposure, or they will need to be taken straight to their shrink, and will likely never be the same again.

Now what I know is, there's Dae I dont know much on, and there's Daegood.