The blog site is finally back online. It's been unavailable for over a week, possibly due to site construction. I thought it was just my laptop, but having done a google search it appears that the site has jumped into the top 10 for searches... all different blog entries.... finding me has never been easier(!) kinda scary actually.Woke up this morning to my landlady and a gaswoman in my kitchen! Seriously, ""Mr Philip, Mr Philip." Whaaaaat? I ope...

9/52. 2 months gone already. Another pay day looms. I woke up this morning to gun fire, the kinds of sporadic bursts of shells which you normally here from Iraq or a similar war-torn region on TV news. There is a firing range in Changwon, near the first mountain i climbed, but it seemed closer than that. There was also dogs barking and the usual banging from next door - lots of activity, moving furniture and so on, so I''m glad it's Sunday as I have woken up ...

8/52. It's Saturday, at the end of week 8. I don't know how many are still reading the blogs but a lot of people seem to be checking out the photos. I'm writing this blog from a local jimjibang. Just had my first Korean bath, in a steamy room full of hundreds of completely naked men and boys, bathing and washing each other. Homosexuality doesn't even enter the psyche of the average Korean male... so it's all very natural. In the communal areas, are a mixt...

I think the winter has started. It dropped 5 degrees over the weekend and on Monday, everyone arrived in hats and gloves and the heating was full on at work. After trying and failing, on Saturday, to install an English display language for my new Averatec laptop, I ventured away from Changwon again on Sunday. I visited Wolchulsan National Park with a group of around 30 eager hikers, all part of a climbing club. My 25,000 Won covered the 4 hour bus ride there, ...

7/52. I am inbetween mountains. Having climbed Chong Byong San last Sunday, I will be attempting a higher mountain, in Jirisan National Park, this Sunday. Kilimanjaro, they are not! They are hills, really. But it is great to get out of the city. I really have developed a passion for it... got my schooling in Snowdonia as a kid, and more recently enjoyed the climbs of the Lake District. For an experience, Kilimanjaro is unlikely to ever be bettered.. unless I conq...