{"id":16504,"date":"2017-04-01T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=16504"},"modified":"2017-04-01T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:30:35","slug":"biking-jeomchondong-to-nakdongni-via-sangju-on-lifeday-25450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=16504","title":{"rendered":"Biking Jeomchondong to Nakdongni via Sangju on LifeDay 25,450"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday April 1st 2017<br \/>\n50 years anniversary\u00a0of leaving home and coming to live in Cambridge for 3 years \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-01-11.40.40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16510\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-01-11.40.40-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-01-11.40.40-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-01-11.40.40-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-01-11.40.40-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-01-11.40.40.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was a stay or should I go start to the day \ud83d\ude41 the rain started to clear so I thought I should go. I&#8217;m finding it hard to know how long to stay in Korea as I&#8217;ve no idea how long it will take to bike upto Tokyo once I arrive in Japan from Busan.<\/p>\n<p>The added incentive today was to visit the Sangju Bicycle Museum an idea floated by Scott &amp; Laura so at 10.30 I said my farewells to Vic &amp; Tim in one of the lovely patisseries that seem to excel in\u00a0Jeomchondong and set off on the cycleway.\\<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16508\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3-2017-04-01-12.55.26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16508\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3-2017-04-01-12.55.26-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3-2017-04-01-12.55.26-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3-2017-04-01-12.55.26-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3-2017-04-01-12.55.26-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3-2017-04-01-12.55.26.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from top of 30% hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first 24km was a beautiful custom made cycleway at one of the certification stamp places I chatted to a Korean guy with an enormous iPad strapped to his handlebars been used for navigation etc. A bit of overkill I thought \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Just after 24km the route goes onto an inclined boardwalk then does an 180-deg turn with a set of steps on the corner, which I think if you can lug your bike OK probably;y best to use! as the boardwalk then turns into a concrete road with a 30-degree incline for some distance \ud83d\ude41 a little\u00a0bit tough to push a laden bike up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16506\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-2017-04-01-15.49.17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16506\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-2017-04-01-15.49.17-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sangju Bicycle Museum\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-2017-04-01-15.49.17-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-2017-04-01-15.49.17-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-2017-04-01-15.49.17-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-2017-04-01-15.49.17.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sangju Bicycle Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the top, I still couldn&#8217;t find any mention of the museum on any of my maps in English so thinking it had\u00a0Sangju in its name that&#8217;s where I headed off to &#8211; BAD DECISION In Sangju still no luck. In the end, I asked a student who took me to the library where I discovered the museum was a few hundred yards further on from where I left the 4 Rivers Trail \ud83d\ude41 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Once at the museum I quickly updated Open Street Map to show the museum position in English \ud83d\ude42 so anyone using maps.me etc etc will easily find it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16507\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5-2017-04-01-16.05.24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16507\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5-2017-04-01-16.05.24-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5-2017-04-01-16.05.24-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5-2017-04-01-16.05.24-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5-2017-04-01-16.05.24-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5-2017-04-01-16.05.24.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wooden bike frame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The museum itself is very spacious and grand with outdoor &amp; indoor biking activities for kids. The exhibits are OK but almost 100% Korean as is all the explanatory text. Whilst there I bumped into Scott \u00a0&amp; Laura who had found it more conventionally. We agreed to meet up in\u00a0Nakdongni\u00a0the path once again became quite hilly and I finally made it in the pouring rain in just over a hour.<\/p>\n<p>The Motel known by its number 3F is OK, my cheapest place yet! and even has a full length towel, the first in Korea \ud83d\ude42 Eating out was a big disappointment for me as this is a big beef growing area. I eventually had two eggs a bit of rice and some beer.<\/p>\n<p>Strava says I did 47 miles of which well over 16 was messing about going to Sangju \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sc\/4kodqwjr54pf33n\/AAAWATldTwRBDnvCYTFqf_Yza\">pictures are here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday April 1st 2017 50 years anniversary\u00a0of leaving home and coming to live in Cambridge for 3 years \ud83d\ude42 It was a stay or should I go start to the day \ud83d\ude41 the rain started to clear so I thought I should go. 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