Postcards from abroad
We had an amazing day on the recommendation of our friend Youngae who suggested we took the metro to Jamsil to try and find non-hurting trainers for Sue. Jamsil is the home of a theme park - Lotte World - and the world’s sixth tallest building so we were quickly diverted from our task to… Continue reading Finding Seoul’s soul
We arrived yesterday afternoon to find our car waiting to whisk us (well, the first half of the journey was whisking; the second half was crawling along a four-lane highway) to our hotel and our room on the 29th floor with a view of the river and, to our surprise this morning, mountains: We found… Continue reading Beating jetlag in Seoul
We are off on our adventures once more! Having been inspired by the many South Korean Netflix series we've been watching over the years, further encouraged by Elliot and Sally (our nephew and his Korean partner) and by a wonderful V and A exhibition, we are off to explore South Korea. We leave 19 October… Continue reading South Korea adventures
To go to the beginning of this trip, click here. We left our quiet forest in the jeep, passing tea and coffee plantations along the unmade road and joined our new driver Abdul to be whisked down to the Keralan coast while everybody else appeared to be coming up the mountain’s nine hairpin bends. Turns out… Continue reading Calicut’s mosques and beach – and farewell!
We assembled at 6.45 am to don our leech socks (not very attractive) and join another couple and our young guide to go bird-watching. It was very misty with no sun, and we should have realised that it might have been better to leave it for a day. Instead, off we embarked on a treacherous… Continue reading Birds, butterflies and langurs