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Midan City, an up and coming ‘all-in-one city’ development expected to attract millions and be complete by 2017, and just ten mins from Incheon airport, played host to Rockorea this weekend.  Of course when I heard about this, ‘all day booze-up’ immediately sprung to mind and I did not need asking twice! 

Rockorea, Midan City. A musical festival with a difference!

There were plenty of food options available.  Even hot dogs.

We took the subway to the airport and a free shuttle bus from there.  While we were on the bus the thought, ‘wouldn’t it be funny if the bus dropped us off here’ popped into my mind while looking out at the deserted wasteland/ building sight that is, unbeknown to me then, the Midan development project.  Sure enough the bus halted to a stop and off we got.  All this was forgotten soon after as the sun was shining, the beer was flowing and bands were playing.

The festival featured many tribute bands with The Tatles (The Beatles) being my favourite.  Everyone was up dancing while they were playing and I’m hoping I’ll see them again at some point when they play in Hongdae. 

The Beatles tribute band. My faves!

Chippy tea!

The other big highlight of my night was… wait for it… my chippy tea! It came wrapped up in paper and everything! I was so excited! It was yummy and for those few minutes made me feel that little bit closer to home!

Despite the warm day we’d had and all the dancing and drinking that followed, we were in for a VERY cold night as we were right on the sea.  It was FREEZING and I didn’t have enough layers or anywhere to sleep (we were planning on staying up all through the night) but luckily I managed to crash in a friend’s tent for a couple of hours- I’m just not as young as I used to be!

We left for the next part of our trip around 6.30am the next morning after a breakfast of delicious sandwiches and to the sound of the Guns N’ Roses tribute band rocking out.  Just fabulous.  

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