During the winter at home I always loved drinking eggnog and eating homemade spiced bread. Neither of which I can easily get in South Korea. I could try making eggnog, but with how my stove works I'd probably burn it and end up with something inedible. This year however a friend sent me a link [...]
For Christmas this year Nathalie and I decided to try something new, so we booked an early Christmas eve dinner at Craftworks which boasted 2 hours of all you can eat buffet of Christmas-y foods, though mostly meat. Pangyo is a planned city built-in 2001 and you can tell. It's spacious, quiet and filled with [...]
While out holiday shopping one of the places my friend wanted to go to was Electro Mart. I didn't have a clue what it was, though I should have guessed. Electro Mart is a giant electronics shop that's seems to be a branch of E-mart. Only unlike E-mart Electro Mart is peppered with back story to [...]
After a bit of shopping a friend and I scrapped our original plans and settled into B Burger because it was too cold to keep looking. We decided to split two different burgers and try their nonalcoholic princess inspired drinks. We picked out their Miso burger which has miso butter, grilled pineapple and romaine lettuce [...]
I've seen a lot of advertisements for different musicals around Seoul, things I hadn't realized there were musicals of, like: "Sherlock Holmes", "Dracula", "Dorian Gray", and "Jekyll and Hyde". So I was curious and looked around at different musicals currently showing was really happy to find "The Count of Monte Cristo". I told my friend [...]
Waking up as a somewhat zombie on Sunday morning (due to stress and not getting enough sleep multiple nights in a row) I decided to pick some place for breakfast. We had checked into our hotel, braved our way around the fringes of that Saturday's protest, and even managed to watch Fantastic Beasts and Where [...]
Around lunch time on my teacher trip all of my coworkers filed off our bus except one other teacher and myself. I waved goodbye and our bus took us to Sokcho bus terminal where I requested a ticket for the next available bus from Sokcho to Dong Seoul (동서울), which is near Gangbyeon station in Seoul. [...]
After the DMZ we made our way back to the beach and visited a couple of buildings and houses of old presidents. The first was the Castle of Hwaginpo, or Kim Ilsung's villa. Kim Ilsung was a president of North Korea and the castle was summer-house for him, his family, and the communist party for [...]
I wasn't really sure where we were going on Saturday and to my surprise our bus headed North through military gates to the DMZ. The DMZ is the demilitarized zone. There are a couple different spots along the boarder between North Korea and South Korea. The one we went to was the one on the [...]
The majority of our Saturday was spent around Hwajinpo Beach. The hotel/pension we stayed at was right on the beach, so when our room got too hot we could listen to the waves crash on shore with the window open. In the morning we went down and walked around the beach. It was beautiful and [...]
