Hello again! :) How is everyone? Decided who you will vote for yet? (before anyone asks yes I will be voting but I have not decided who for) For once I am slightly glad that I won’t be working in the polling stations on voting day and I will see all the results real time because Korean day is English night… best of both worlds :) Anyway politics is not what you are here for… Let’s delve into my next set of adventures…
The first adventure in the long list of adventures in this post is to 문경새재 (Mungyeongsaejae), where I went with the Korean family who give me Korean lessons every Sunday. This place is used for filming historical k-dramas and it was so peaceful and tranquil! Definitely worth a visit should you find yourself wanting to come and see Korea. The cafe we went to after had a very cute photo machine that I enjoyed using too :)
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My next adventure involved something I hadn’t done before… hiking! In all honesty the first mountain I tried hiking was taller than I expected and despite Marvin Gaye saying “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” this one definitely was so I didn’t make it to the top… but check out the beautiful view
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Fortunately my second time hiking (this time with a group of women via an app called Nomad Her) 계양산 (Gyeyangsan) in 인천 (Incheon) I did actually make it to the top. Hiking is definitely a “no pain no gain” activity in my mind but the pictures do make up for it!
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Okay so my next adventure was a little closer to home to the neighbouring city of 대전 (Daejeon). Following the successful adventure to 대구 (Daegu) with my friend 성범 (Soungbum), next we decided that 대전 would be our next adventure. Knowing that I love 칼국수 (kalguksu) he decided to show me his favourite restaurants in the area and I also had more 빙수 (bingsu) but this time with the traditional red bean filling. Sadly I didn’t take many pictures but we actually have been back to 대전 since because there is so much more to see (and stay tuned for the BEST eggs benedict I have ever had and my impression of Korean cinemas). I’m very lucky that the few friends I have made (although we have actually been language exchange friends for a while online) live fairly close to me so we can adventure often.
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Next I went back to 서울 (Seoul) to see the wonderful 유진 (Yujin) and 수빈 (Soobin) where we had a lovely afternoon looking at a miniature life exhibition, Japanese food and the coffee shop to catch up :) Honestly this exhibition was very cool and I spent most of my time walking around in awe of the art, I loved the use of contact lenses to make mini umbrellas :)
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Sadly I still have lots more to update and I have reached the image limit so stay tuned for part 3 which will be coming very very soon :)
Toodle pip!
How did we forget to take pictures!?