After a long night I eventually tumbled out of bed and decided to go visit the ‘Garden of Morning Calm’, with a name like that I was expecting this place to be beautiful. It’s a laborious 2 hour journey to get there from Hongdae, we get off at the wrong…
After a well needed sleep from the night before, we decided to explore the Hongdae area. Where alleys upon alleys of restaurants and clothes shops spill off of the main high street. The streets are full of students from the local university and they bustle about in groups and…
After the 6 and a half hour plane journey we finally begin the descent into Seoul. Through the window, flumes of smoke rise up through the clouds and at first we think they are natural hot springs. But, somehow less romantically, we realise that these towers of steam are factory…
As I sat with my head half way down the airplane toilet, with sick streaming out of my mouth like confetti, I asked myself have I made the right decision? I left London 10 hours ago destined to get to South Korea in another day or so. Who really knows…