Blossoms!

Spring is HERE!

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April 10th 2009
This Spring has been wonderfully full of adventure! We started it last weekend with a very busy, very fun trip down to Busan! The Cherry Blossoms were at their peak and the weather was perfect! It involved going over 300km/hr on a train, riding roller coasters, going to the biggest Hot Springs in Asia, seeing Sharks up REALLY close, a trip to the hospital (not me!), a fascinating and disgusting ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Gyeonggi-do » Goyang » Ilsandong-gu

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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