A beautiful sunrise on our last morning in Thighland

Thighland...And what a holiday it was!

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August 13th 2011
Oh how poignant a single song can be at times.... It's 10.37pm here in good ol' Chuncheon, most simply the place I now call home. Just been dropped home by a rather lovely taxi driver, who despite minimal English managed to get it out of me that I enjoy "old school songs" and put on What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. Now of course, bare in mind I was still horribly jet lagged. ... read more

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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