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My yearning for the sea took  me on a 3 1/2 hour train       ride south west. The            morning was clear and         freezing leaving the Dugye     station. As we approached    Mokpo the weather had         become foggy with snow       flurries. I could not see nor    smell the ocean. The           information booth had no       map of the city and the         attendant spoke no English. I  resolved to take my             direction from the guide        book at hand and set off for   the National Maritime            Museum by way of two         buses.
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The approach to the train station  and the bus ride to the Museum   gave me the impression that       Mokpo was a much larger city    than Daejeon. And, as the          pictures reveal, not a very         attractive city. Without a map      and time restriction, I was not     going to do more than a tour of    the museum.

The museum is situated about      2km. up an inlet across from a    penninsula that is protected        from the Yellow Sea by a          cluster of Islands.
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I had set off on this visit   with a feeling analogous  with anticipating a         meeting of a cousin of    my soul mate...I was     not so naively romantic  as to hope the "cousin"   would offer me the        companionship I had      enjoyed with my           "mate"... so I was not     severely let down         when I arrived to this     inland salt harbour.       Seagulls, moored          fishing boats, and          distant freighters           validated what my taste  confirmed...this was      the ocean, such as it      was...so be it. I            contented myself with    the reality (spoiled by    Bamfield).
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