I always expected to like Busan more than Seoul, and in many ways I did. It has a very different feel to Seoul and is much prettier than Seoul. Why go? It ticks my two main city preference boxes: sea and mountains. The fish market (dried fish, shell fish, fresh fish and more). It has […]
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(LENGTHY) POSTCARD POEM FROM SOUTH KOREA South Korea? What an interesting thought.We’d never been, so tickets were bought.Within two weeks, aboard Asiana;Bound for Seoul with my mate Diana. PHOTO Bukchon Hanok guesthouse, Seoul. Yo (futon) on ondol (heated floor) Our first four nights in Seoul we stayed,On yo on ondol, there we laid.The floor was
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(NB This information is from a trip in April 2013) Is it cheap to shop in South Korea? It was not as cheap as I expected. Accommodation is cheap, you can eat cheaply and some everyday things seem cheap (eg I got some 1,000 won pads of nice writing paper). Souvenirs are a bit more
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Overall thoughts – Accommodation – Travelling around/orientation – Things to do – Lunch and dinner – Cafe Overall thoughts Brief: crazy traffic, lots of pipping, dirty, noisy, feels poor, not touristy at all, some nice large parks/green space, hectic train station, lots of buses, no obvious centre of city beyond Mega mall, cheaper than Almaty
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(NB This information is from a trip in January 2014)(All photos did not survive the transfer from my previous web hosting so will be added) CONTENTS Who I am and what I wanted from this trip Safety and planning your trip Suggestions for planning where to stay in Ensenada Some things to consider before leaving
A travel blog should have an interesting angle, something far more imaginative and slightly less clichéd, despite being ludicrously true, than: “As we devoured delicious, hand made gelato, reciting Byron and Shelley while walking along a cobbled pathway with olive groves on one side and aromatic pine trees on the other, we rounded a corner
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