Moving to Seoul During my lazy morning in the room, I realised that the heated floor was on, on a day which is expected to peak at 30 degC! Even though it was only in key patches of the room (eg. where one hops out of bed, where one’s feet are at the desk or […]

Hwaseong Fortress I woke after 9 hours of sleep, having missed a night’s sleep airborne. Venturing out after some muesli and milk, I was pleased that it wasn’t stinking hot today, with substantial cloud cover.  The plan for the morning was to explore Hwaseong Fortress or rather its walls and gates which are dotted around […]

Above:  Pedestrian mall in Suwon, near my hotel. Arriving at Seoul Incheon airport at 0630, I wasn’t as lucky as previous visits.  It took an hour to get through immigration and exit without a bag. I’m booked to stay in Suwon, which Google Maps says is 2h away by bus.  The hotel’s check-in time is […]

Wall Museum We woke earlier than yesterday but with a less “full-on” day ahead, we took it easy and had breakfast later.  We headed out to the nearby City Wall Museum to take a look at the history of the city’s wall.  The displays were very well done, showing the scale of the wall and […]

Hanok Bukchon Sunrise in Seoul now is about 0500.  I stirred around 0600 and fell back asleep till 0740. We ventured downstairs to the good hotel breakfast around 0800. I had hoped to have an early start to avoid the expected 33 deg C heat but it wasn’t mean to be.  We left around 0900 […]

Above:  Dongdaemun Design Plaza. Flying on the Airbus A220 We have an 1145 departure from Naha airport to Incheon today.  We left by monorail after 0800 and got to the airport 3h before the flight. As today’s flight on a small plane, an A220, I didn’t expect check-in to be open that early. I did […]

Oryukdo Skywalk I had made arrangements to meet an old university friend at Oryukdo Skywalk at 0945 today.  As I had kept somewhat on New Zealand time, I took breakfast at 0645 and was on the bus at 0740.  The ride took about an hour before getting dropped at the last stop in front of […]

Bus to Busan I woke early at 0600 and took breakfast before the official time of 0800.  I left soon after on a 5 min walk to the bus stop where I managed to get a bus to the Express Bus Terminal.  I’m bound for Busan today and it was a lot costlier to go […]