Posted in South Korea, culture, tagged Basement Jaxx, club mass on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As if I wasn’t already nearing temporary brain-death from the early morning start and site-seeing overload, I decided to pile on a bit extra and head straight out to a club the evening I returned to Seoul. The reason being….Basement Jaxx were in Gangnam!
I’m gutted cos I took a really good [...]
Posted in South Korea, culture, heritage sites, tagged Adventure Korea, Gakwonsa, Magoksa, Naesosa, Royal Asiatic Society, temple stay on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I went a little bit crazy with the site-seeing this week. It all started with a temple stay program 8th-9th Dec organised through Adventure Korea. We travelled to Naesosa temple in Jeollabuk-do. On the way we stopped off at the coast to see the Chaeseokgang, natural rock formations that look like stacked books. It was [...]
Posted in South Korea, teaching, tagged teaching on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
They were supposed to be writing about their favourite place, but for some reason Tiffany decided to write about me…
I’m gutted cos with the new term I’ve got new classes so I no longer teach her. I’m going to miss that class as they were the most entertaining, if not the most hard-working.
Posted in Outdoors, South Korea, tagged Begundae, Bukhansan on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone said Bukhansan was a difficult climb, so I thought I’d take up the challenge.
Starting at Boseonsa Temple, it was easy going for the first hour or so. Then as we began climbing towards Begundae (836m) it became more fun as the path got more difficult…
It was pretty cold and as we got higher there [...]
