Hotel Airport Incheon

... in the class but not expected to teach yet.<br><br>Life in the hotel has been fine (the other English teachers are fun and<br>interesting), but it does leave me itching to see the country proper.<br>The hotel is catering to us foreigners with a few western-style meals<br>and a few Korean dishes, which I suppose is a nice way to ease into<br>something new.<br><br>Tomorrow I meet my Korean co-teacher and move into my apartment, and ...

... couple shuffling in the rice fields. The women&#8217;s face, barely noticeable, was wrapped in cloth under a floppy hat protecting her face from the Asian sun and a possible tan. For this kind of farm work the couple wore rain boots and elbow length plastic gloves. <br>The outskirts of the local village greeted us with flowery gardens and cottages. In the mid day heat the village streets were quiet. Village architecture is a mixture of old traditional Korean ...

... is one hour so nothing is out of wak yet. I'm really relaxed at the moment and it's weird because I thought I'd be really anxious about everything. I even went for a walk and found an equivalent to Wal-Mart here called E-Mart. I'm surprised by how expensive everything here is. I think it's also because I'm near the airport everything is crazy expensive! Then I walked a bit and around the hotel and found this cool looking glass ...

... We also stumbled upon a Korean (what sounded like Aboriginal) singing and dancing show. The singing was performed by those on stage and the dancing was done by the old Korean men. It was quite a dance-off. Check out the video!

So, in arriving in Luton airport in London, one should be able to reach Victoria station in less than two and a half hours, true/false? True: That's a decent amount of time to get there and leave some either side. Why, the coach to Victoria only takes 1 hour and ...

... dossing together. Actually it was surreal at times. We had the pleasure of Marc (6) joining us for a few sightseeing trips and it was wonderfully strange to be sitting at tube stations with a "Mini-Martin". What a great kid! He and Quinn totally clicked and we can't wait to have you all 'doss' in with us in W.A. in the not too distant future ...

... who dont know I went to school in Ireland when I was about 5 or 6 and my mum and I lived with Aunt Lily in Lurgan. Lurgan therefore to me is a place with distinct childhood memories, such as Dickie McGills sweet shop which is still there!! While most of my dads side spread themselves out around the world my mum only had one sister and she stayed in Lurgan...and therefore I have a massive family in Lurgan......some in the graveyard and some still kickn but either way, walking ...

... wont let you get near it but we walked all around it. Then we took the train to Bath..it was about 1 hr further on. We walked up into the town and found the famous roman baths and toured it. That was cool too. It was neat to imagine the romans building and using it so long ago. Then we rode the train back to London. Then we rested a bit and took the tube out to a few places around town that we wanted to just walk by and see again this year such as Big Ben, Parliment,Trafalgar ...

... with a friendly cafe bar where I met and chatted for ages with two young Polish women. Warsaw feels immense. Enormously wide streets and some dreadful Soviet architecture. The first buildings of great interest were the Palace of Culture. This is a truly monumental set of buildings and there is local debate about whether they should be torn down because they are such a reminder of soviet days. It was all very gray, and snowing in a gray kind of way ...

... man starting his first day at the counter for Korean Airlines. We chatted for a bit and traded e-mail addresses. He told me to come visit him in Seoul sometime, and to let him know if I was planning any more air travel with Korean Airlines, as he'd try to get me a bargain. I made a note to definitely get a hold of him further into my journey... you can never have too many friends. Sure enough, I was the first to get a boarding pass for my ...