Musings

In terms of total time spent away on vacation, this 18 day trip to South Korea hasn’t been our longest: the honor for that goes to our Dec 2023 trip to the Chubu and Kanto regions of Japan: that trip

We saw a number of signage that made us chuckle/giggle/ROFL this trip! South Koreans certainly have a good sense of humor, intentional or not. A number of these I posted to Facebook; but here is a selection of some of

A selection of photos taken by the wife. We quipped that when it comes to all things flora observed on our family holidays, we all wait for the wife! Though as one of my neighbors astutely observed: Pictures!    

Continued from the last post! Day 10 (Seoul) Alpaca World (2 hrs) [blog post here]: Alpaca World was the first stop for the first of three day trips we did out of Seoul. The park is unique for its collection

The post-trip analysis of this 18 days in South Korea showed a couple of interesting things when I compare it to our last several trips to Japan. Firstly, the number of unique places we visited – 59 in total –

Our morning flight home was departing 8:50AM from Incheon International Airport Terminal 1. Our hotel was providing complimentary shuttle bus services for guests to both of the airport’s terminals, with the first bus leaving at 6AM. We’d thought that this

We stayed at the Golden Tulip Incheon Airport Hotel and Suites for a single evening as we were transiting through the city for our early morning flight home on Day 18. Our brief notes on it! As our Day 18

Continued from the previous post, and covering grub from Day 10 onwards! That’s a wrap for our culinary experiences this trip in Korea!

Our notes recording grub on this 18 day trip to South Korea! This is a super long post with a lot of pictures, so it’s split into two parts. Part 1 covers grub from Days 01 to 09! Continued in

Incheon is actually South Korea’s third largest city by population, and after Seoul and Busan. It’s not really a well-known place for international tourism though. And for most travellers, the only encounter we would have with this city is that