little bits

just sitting in a net cafe so i thought i'd add a quick one.

we're leaving mongolia tomorrow and heading our way into china. i'll be sorry to see mongolia go, it's been an absolutely fantastic 10 days. the mongolian people are incredibly friendly and helpful, and even in the countryside when they have very little or no english to complement our microscopic mongolian, it's been really easy.

a quick advert: if you're ever thinking of going to mongolia and staying in ulan baatar, you can't do better than staying at the UBGuesthouse, just off peace avenue. look it up! on www.hostelworld.com

last night we said to owner that we wanted to go our for korean food. Mr. Kim, the guy that runs our hostel is korean. his face lit right up, he said "follow me," and off we trotted to a nearby korean restaurant. within minutes of arriving we had our own room, 3 waitresses serving us, one cooking at our table, and had a superb meal. i'd never eaten korean before. it's gooood.

anyway, we ate our fill then Mr Kim jumped up, paid for the whole thing and asked only that we mention his hostel to people who intend to come to UB.
which frankly, i would've done anyway because it's been fantastic.

so there we go. mongolia is awesome but i'm very excited about beijing. we're just checking the weather forecast for the time we're going to be there and it looks like the coolest day will be 33 degrees. bring it on!