After living in Korea for a while, I still had not seen many of the major attractions in Seoul…the museums, palaces…hanok village…street food carts…another section of the wall… So I set out on a jam-packed weekend in Seoul with a friend to do all the bucket-list items that one normally does in Seoul. I enjoyed […]Read Post ›
Chuncheon is a very quiet city – and was often difficult for someone like me who can get easily bored! But – Chuncheon does have two very noteworthy festivals. This one, was Chuncheon’s yearly international mime festival, a time where everyone in town goes out to see mime performances, get drunk, dance…get drunk…and party till […]Read Post ›
Seoullo – day 2 after its opening. An old highway flyover transformed in to an urban garden and walkway. Love it. Great design. Great effort. I walked along it early in the morning, and there were already many people out and about on it – walking, jogging, taking selfies… The walkway has fun little features […]Read Post ›
This was the weekend of Buddha’s birthday – celebrated by the lotus lantern festival. I had signed up for a Buddhist temple-stay program, and included with it, was the opportunity to be part of the lotus-lantern parade. After arriving, we were given plain monk-uniforms to change into and had a brief introduction at the temple, and […]Read Post ›
Another great hike – this one was on more of a time limit though. We had to take the ferry across the lake, and complete the hike in time to get the return ferry. Near the start of the trail was Cheongpyeongsa temple. I was thrilled to see that there were still cherry on them […]Read Post ›
This little weekend trip was completely sponsored by the Korean Government and Pyeongchang county. They wanted foreigners to experience Pyeongchang – the region that’s hosting the winter Olympics next year. It was a large group of foreigners – many exchange students and the trip was organised by the CIK group. Everything was totally free – […]Read Post ›
I had some time to kill….I wanted to see the actual Cherry blossom festival in Yeouido, but that wasn’t until later in the day. So I wandered over to Hongdae, and took a few pics of things that caught my eye. (After Hongdae, the actual festival/market stalls was an anti-climax back in Yeouido. Partly due […]Read Post ›
Spring. In all the excitement and anticipation of the arrival of the cherry blossoms I took a nightbus to Seoul on a Friday night, stayed over at a Jimjilbang, woke up super early (sunrise)the next morning to find cherry blossoms…only to find that…there were none. Just buds. I did, however, get to take a nice […]Read Post ›
After a full Friday night of drinking at 4 bars…eating…and getting silly and singing badly to lady Gaga and Psy at two different Nuraebangs (and I was super thankful for all the people who came out to celebrate with me), followed by an 8am breakfst + soju… my actual birthday morning on Saturday started early […]Read Post ›
On this weekend, I set out with the second hand bicycle I bought. I wanted to cycle around the whole lake. Somehow, I ended up getting a little confused, and backtracked in the same direction that I came from – making me feel like I was going around in circles. It was starting to get […]Read Post ›
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