On the first Saturday in December I joined a friend to check out the German Christmas Market at the Deutsche Schule Seoul International. For my friend it was a confusing language nightmare since she's fluent in German, English and Korean and all were being spoken around us. The event started at 5pm and continued until 8pm [...]
After dinner we headed to Duryu baseball park to get a spot for the festival. The lantern festival is in celebration of Buddha's birthday, and kicks off the celebrations a bit early. (The date for Buddha's birthday changes depending on where you are, in Korea it's the 8th day of the 4th month of lunar [...]
This year Seoul Fashion Week came and left with me still spinning and rather unaware that I had missed it other than some posts by friends. I figured maybe next time. Mika, on the other hand, went, dressed up and backstage. (The nice part about living in Seoul). While I didn't make it to SFW [...]
I spent about a week in Tokyo visiting friends. I was able to stay with a friend in their old fashioned tatami mat styled apartment outside of Tokyo. While I spent a disproportiante amount of time in Shibuya compared to anywhere else I had a lot more fun this time then last year. To get home I [...]
I'm pretty stumped at how anyone in Japan gets tickets to visit the Ghibli museum. My friend spent months trying to no avail, but while I was visiting Roppongi Hills was having an exhibit for Ghibli and a cafe to go with it which blew up on my Facebook feed. My friend, her boyfriend and [...]
My friend only really had one thing planned when I arrived and it was to go to Seomun Market. This market is usually open only during the day and hasn't changed much other than growing bigger and bigger since the Joseon Dynasty. It's major selling point is fabrics but other things can be found as [...]
While I was in Bangkok I happened to be there at the same time the Lights of Happiness were up in front of City Hall which happened to be near my hostel. For most of the month of January and the end of December the lights were up and they had different events going on [...]
Holidays away from home can be difficult. Especially when your far from home and things aren't the same. As I mentioned in my previous post, cooking in South Korea can be difficult. Not completely impossible but depending on where you live and what you have access to can make a big difference. Cooking for Thanksgiving was [...]
Out in the mountains of Gapyeong is a surprisingly big town, with pensions of all kinds, cafes, and restaurants. It was really surprising to suddenly find ourselves in a somewhat dead but lively town. Maybe it was the wrong season, or Sunday's aren't particularly busy, but there were little to know people around and traffic was [...]
While I was in Tokyo one of the things I wanted to see was the lantern festival taking place near Asakusa for Obon. First we got there early enough to explore Asakusa, or what we thought was early enough. We started off at Kaminarimon gate (thunder gate) and went down the Nakamise shopping street to the [...]
