Saturday 15 February 2014

Fancy Coffee Shop

After we ate lunch today we went to a coffee shop.  Where I live you have a wide variety of places to choose from, for there are probably 20 coffee shops within 8 minutes walking in the city center (largely a pedestrian area).

We wanted a quiet place to talk, so we went to this place, which has a lot of enclosed booths with 1 or 2 tables and accompanying couches to sit on.  It's far different from Starbucks, which is located in the next-door building:



I'm not in love with the styling (ok, I'm not), but I like the walls and doors that provide some privacy and limit intruding voices. Next to the little lamp is a red buzzer to push for service.

Looking out the window,


on the far right you can see the subway station (which, in Gunpo, well outside of Seoul, is an elevated train station).  In the middle is a multi-purpose building which houses a cinema.

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