Millennium Seoul Hilton

I took a cab from the Millennium Seoul Hilton and was able to reach Myung-dong in less than 10 minutes. The taxi fare was also not bad at only US$ 2.00! Myung-dong is a shopping heaven. You can find a lot of fun and very affordable stuff in this area ...

... inside, which I did.  When the bus arrived, I jumped on board with about 6 other people going to my hotel - the Millennium Seoul Hilton - and the Grand Hyatt. The journey to the hotel took just over an hour from Incheon.  I was amazed what a ...

We stayed in the old part of Seoul (at the Hilton - but it was nice) and close to the main Seoul train/subway station and Mt. Namsan.  We were able, with Tara's help, to get around on the subway.  Dain had a few days off work when we arrived so ...

... an hour of waiting in the airport, we said, "Sure" and hustled down to get on board.  We got back to Seoul, and headed back to the Hilton.  We checked in and were right back in the same room that we had left before going to Jeju.  Once we ...

... nearly as cool as the view that greeted me when I got out the cable car and turned back around me - the site of Seoul, sprawling out in every direction right up into the mountains, right across the river, all 11million of its residents out there.  ...

Today was our last full day of exploring Seoul, so we headed out after breakfast to find the Bukchon Traditional Korean Village.  When the taxi dropped us off, it turned out that the village wasn't much at all, just stores and homes that didn't seem ...

We had to get up early this morning (5:30am) to catch the shuttle to the airport for our flight to Seoul. Neither of us can believe our time in Japan is over, but we are looking forward to Korea and meeting up with Christine's mom, as well as Rick & ...

... the plaza of decorated lions and snow-themed articles.  By this time it was also snowing again, so it was quite pretty,  Seoul is celebrating being World City of Design 2010 so this was all part of that honour.  Across the plaza was another ...

... Unterhaltung mit einer hübschen Kollegin abgelenkt. Zum Hotel sind wir diesmal mit einem Bus gefahren, der ein paar Hotels in Seoul abklappert. Wir waren aber die einzigen Fahrgäste, also hat die Fahrt direkt zu unserem geführt. Hat aber trotzdem ca. ...

After another mildly restless night, I decided to take advantage of a bit of a lie in.  I listened to the radio, reminding me how it was yet again going to be below freezing.  Marvellous. I decided after my morning meeting that I was going to ...

I was back in Korea last week, as the older readers will know when I was out there last year the overall aim was to employ a local, Korean speaking employee. This has now happened. The week overall when well, there is not too much to add as I was ...

... runs through bedrock at a depth of about 73 m (239.5 ft) below ground. It is apparently designed for a surprise attack on Seoul from North Korea, and can easily accommodate a full division per hour along with their weaponry. A total of four tunnels have ...

... of this opportunity! The flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok was a little less than a 3 hour journey and we arrived at the Millennium Hilton just after 2 am.  Our room has a wall of windows that overlooks the Chao Prahya River which serves as one of ...

... it the proper care.   It's been a busy few weeks for the Zoo Vet. The adult male giraffe is named Millennium, (guess what, he's 10!) and the mother a contraction of pretty and giraffe, so roughly "Pretty giraffe."    They used to ...