Benoit visits again. Two days after he leaves, he sends an e-mail that he has lost his  pencil-case. I check with the Hotel and they have it. I go downtown to retrieve it. On the way back, I walk from the Novotel to Daegu station so that I can go to the Subway sandwich shop.

Okay, that's a lie, I'm looking for the fabled bawdy house with the lunchtime special.

On the way, I walk through the 'black market'- a section downtown where there are several store selling foreign products. I suspect they get a lot of the stuff from the American Army base. In the window of one of these stores is a single box of mini-wheats. It's blueberry mini-wheats, but at least it's mini-wheats.

Merry Christmas to me.