Biggie Train - Craft Beer in Daegu

Sorry to have missed blogging on Sunday - we were without internet connection in Jeonju.

Here are the photos from Saturday night, taken at a craft beer place in Daegu called "Biggie Train." I drank an India Pale Ale that the bartender said was supplied by Craftworks Taphouse, and the brew did taste like the IPA I've had many times there, but I'll need to check with Dan Vroon to make sure since there might have been something lost in translation, for the bartender spoke no English. Anyway, here I am drinking that IPA:

Sun-Ae drank a different beer, as can be seen in the next photo:

Sun-Ae's brother and his wife also enjoyed a brew:

I wish I had more time to write, but the evening is passing quickly by this Monday back in Seoul . . .

Vacation in Daegu . . . and Beyond!

Daegu City

(Image from Wikipedia)

We left Seoul yesterday afternoon for Daegu, my wife's childhood home in the southern part of the Korean peninsula, to celebrate the onset of the Lunar New Year, and we shan't return till Sunday the 6th of February, after a couple of days in Busan, too. I might be unable to blog some days, and I'll also not have much access to the news at a time when North Africa and the Middle East are boiling over.

To make up for that information vacuum, I'll ensconce myself in the latter 16th and early 17th centuries, reading John Heilbron's biography of Galileo. I've already begun the book and am enjoying it immensely and will eventually be reporting upon it on this blog . . . as soon as I have something worth saying (undoubtedly after I've finished the book and had time to digest it).

I won't have much to say about Milton until I return to Seoul, where I can access my personal library -- and just when the posts were getting interesting, too. I have an ulterior motive for these Milton posts, the need to prepare a paper on "eating Death" in time for this summer's International Milton Symposium in Tokyo at Aoyama Gakuin University:

Milton's 'Awkward' Grecism: "Know" with Nominative Participle

My paper will also be awkward, but such are our graceless efforts in this fallen world. I'll have to apologize for the false advertising since my paper will be rather broader than implied by the title.

I'll also be blogging in the next few weeks on the European Union and European integration, or lack thereof, for I'll be teaching a course on the subject this coming semester in the Division of International Studies at Ewha Womans University, in addition to the usual writing and cultural courses for the English Program Office.

Meanwhile, life goes on . . .