Dear family and friends, This one is going to be a little bit dismal I'm afraid. South Korea was a bit of a joke all round. Day one, caught up on sleep now that the PLA-N weren't harrassing us anymore. Day two, got all dressed up in dress blues to go to the United Nations memorial ceremony. The Australians were the only ones there. There was one...

Hi Everyone, Today we got up very early (5 am), mostly because we had 2 dogs wake us up :) We hoped on a bus and headed to Busan for a Korean Wedding. By far the most amazing thing I may ever witness. It was a traditional Korean wedding (so we couldn't understand anything) but the location was absolutely gorgeous and the outfits were amazing! On...

Well we had one of the most exciting/traumatic mornings that we have had in a longtime today. It started at 4:30 am with Kieran coming into my dorm telling me it was 6:30 and we are late already, as it turned out his watch had been acting up lately and the time had changed by itself during the night. And fortunately we were not late but an hour ...

So the school I'm working at is called Onchun Middle School. It's in a very large building on the top of a very long driveway...up hill. I was told my apartment was only going to be a 10 min walk, but....it's not. It's 25 mins, and it's VERY uphill. Like, literally from the moment I step out of my apartment, I'm walking uphill. Dude. You know, t...

Hi, I just created this travel blog......now I'm at home in Busan, beginning to prepare for my trip, saying farewell to friends, etc. Next Wednesday I leave Busan for my two-week winter camp in Jeollanam-do.

Day 12- Two second-class seats please! Before departing our Hiroshima hostel, we threw a quick load in the washer (but had to go to the laundry mat around the block) to use their dryer. It was pouring rain for our commute to the train station (once again). We carried our oversize bags to the trolley (street car) station. We gave ourselves plenty...

Chuseok is the Korean thanks giving. It meant that we had 4 days off last week - which finally allowed us to go and see some more of the country. We decided to go to Busan - as its meant to be a good place to relax, and there is plenty to do. So last Tuesday we headed down early in the morning. We took the bullet train, meaning it only took us a...

That was the question posed to me about a year ago. Stacey had heard that an English-speaking dive master from Canada was taking interested people on a shark observation at the Busan Aquarium at Haeundae Beach. By observation this meant strapping on some scuba gear and spending half and hour in a tank home to about 20 sharks captured in open-wat...

At our first stop, in Krakow, Poland, we met a Canadian called Jason who had the idea of always using a hotel near to the port of entry when he arrived in a new country in the evening. This was to avoid negotiating a foreign place after dark and to give himself a bit of time to rest and refresh. We thought this to be a pretty good idea, and what...