Petite France 쁘띠프랑스

Petite France 쁘띠프랑스

A french inspired tourist stop in Gapyeong with a love for "The Little Prince"

Neuti Korean food and Teacher’s Day hiking

Neuti Korean food and Teacher’s Day hiking

Teacher's Day in Korea is on May 15th. Every year my school does something different. My first year in Korea the students made cheesecake and brought them out to teachers. The second year our principle decided it'd be fun to have a teachers version of sports day. This year the sports day was swapped out [...]

Surviving Jarasum’s International Jazz Festival

Surviving Jarasum’s International Jazz Festival

About an hour out from Seoul via Korail, or about 40 minutes via the ITX is a beautiful mountainous county called Gapyeong. It's a great place for hiking, biking, and pretty much anything to do with enjoying nature. Due to all the pensions and beautiful nature, Gapyeong gets insanely crowded in the summer, but during [...]

도안동 감나무집 Persimmon Tree House

도안동 감나무집 Persimmon Tree House

Samgyetang (삼계탕) is a type of soup in Korea. It includes a whole small chicken, ginseng, jujube, garlic and spices. A friend took me to 도안동 감나무집, a restaurant behind Gapyeong Station, that serves Samgyetang on one of the Sambok 삼복 days. Sambok are the 'hottest' days of the year. It's traditional to eat Samgyetang on these specific [...]

Rabbits CoffeeLab

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 [...]