My last day in Kyoto was reserved for Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, nicknamed USJ. USJ is accessible from Kyoto via train. Just be careful not to get on the Osaka loop train which doesn't go to USJ. Instead there is a train that announces it goes to Universal Studios. The second train we boarded [...]
After the Golden Mount I tried to exit closer to the road I would take back to the hostel and some how ended up on the wrong street. I hadn't realized there were so many exits from the temple. But luckily this exit put me on a street with a small cafe. I went in [...]
I visited Brown Sugar because I was drawn to the idea of live jazz and missing the wonderful jazz bars I went to in Prague. So I mentioned it to one of my hostel mates and we headed out, early, in the hopes of getting good seats and being able to get dinner before it got packed [...]
I usually don't get to Seoul before 11 am, it takes me over an hour to get almost anywhere. But a friend wanted to meet up early so we could do a lot throughout the day . So after about 2 hours of traveling I came out from the subway and into cold winds [...]
Cafe Artisée is a cafe chain in Seoul. It's french inspired and has a variety of breads, baked goods, sandwiches, salads and other foods. I went for a quick lunch and was pretty surprised. I ordered a simple sandwich: a baguette with chicken, lettuce and cheese. The heated it up for me which was nice, [...]
I've passed Rabbits CoffeeLab multiple times and have always wanted to go in, and finally did, in the process of saying goodbye to my friend Emily who was heading back to her home country. It isn't particularly English friendly (i.e. the language written and spoken is mostly all Korean inside the shop) but it was a [...]
Plant is a popular vegetarian/vegan restaurant/bakery in Itaewon. I spent a weekend in Seoul with a friend from Chicago whose vegetarian which made picking restaurants easier. In other words I just had to google search for any vegetarian restaurants in the area and head off that way. Plant was nice, we had a bit trouble [...]
At the end of our night wandering around in Edae Nathalie stopped to look at some pastries and saw a beautiful strawberry tart. So after dinner we decided we'd find our way back to the bakery to have it for dessert. We'd only looked in the window and popped our heads in to see if they [...]
While wandering around Edae with Nathalie I saw a picture of something familiar and took off down a side street in utter joy, probably to the major confusion of Nathalie. Down a little side street was a small shop selling coffee and Trdelník. Trdelník's were my ultimate favorite street food in Prague. Bella Praha calls them Trdlo's [...]
Before heading home on the last day of our vacation we went out for breakfast. We'd eaten at Paris Baguette already and passed by this cafe multiple times. It was along the walk from exit 9 at Gangam station and the hotel we we were staying at.. Gontran Cherrier is a chain of bakeries created [...]
