Queueing for trendy coffee shop in Hanok costumes

Palaces, temples and night markets

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October 9th 2023
First a stopover, just 30 hours to see Doha. Our plane from London is full of Formula One teams - Aston Martin, Alpine, McLaren and Williams. It is the Qatar Grand Prix next weekend and all the talk on the plane is of temperatures. We land in the early evening, the temperature is 35c but it will drop to around 30c overnight, only to rise again to 40c tomorrow. And this isn't summer, it's October! ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more