Blogs from Seoul, South Korea, Asia - page 129

We went to the Canadian Thanksgiving dinner in Seoul at the Hilton hotel put on by C. Chamber of Commerce. It was amazing in terms of the food and hospitality. Lots of great people there from all over Canada. We met a great group of people from the east coast (yeah I know they're great) We had a great Western dinner and had a late night out with our new friends. We might attend the Christmas one in December. I missed my mom's turkey dinner! ... read more

On our first weekend (it was a long weekend) we went with our new friends Dave (Brit) and Emily (American) to an F.C. Seoul match. It was pretty cool. The world cup stadium holds 65 thousand, but only 20-25 thousand attend the games. They were an extremely rowdy bunch, singing the entire game. There was a little hike outside the stadium that allowed for a few pictures of the west end of the city. colin... read more

Well not really, we're really doing a bit of Seoul searching more than anything else............. Meanwhile back at the ranch............. So Seoul huh, that'll shock your system, for sure (as my new dutch mate says, all the time. I dinnae ken his name so I just call him 'Dutch Guy', he doesn't seem to mind). We were speaking to some dude in Australia about Korea, he said he went to Seoul and lasted a day before getting the first flight out, his reason was that it was dead big and busy and noisy and polluted and that but we though that after being in Japan for the month before that it would be a breeze, WRONG! It is brutal, huge, noisy, polluted yeah, and it stinks, big time. It really hit us for six when we ... read more

We have already described our 3 day stop over in Vancouver in some of our emails, so we won't go into great detail here. We arrived on a Satuday...picked up our processed visas at 5:40pm..or so..and by 6:00pm had purchased two one way tickets for Seoul, South Korea. Vancouver was sunny, warm and beautiful. We stayed right downtown in the most gorgeous condo ever (huge thanks to Doug and Paul). We were minutes from the water, the cool shopping of Robson St., and over 480 Starbucks'. colin... read more

Welcome to the island of Wonder, Ulleungdo! , Yes it was. What a change from Seoul. Ulleungdo is known for it's delicious cuisine, including cuttlefish, fresh greens, pumpkin taffy, and medicinal beef. It has an ocean climate. It has an abudance of juniper, water, wind, and stone. We started out friday at 11:30 pm for a 5 hour bus ride . We arrived to watch the sunset (see pics) Wow, lots of Canadians on the tour well actually a lot of foriegners all in one place together! We took the ferry about 2.5 hours right over to the ulleungdo island itself. I don't want to say too much about the ride except I am glad I had gravol! Everyone was sea sick around me ! The whole boat smelled like kimichi and rice if you know ... read more