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7 July 2023
Wall Museum We woke earlier than yesterday but with a less “full-on” day ahead, we took it easy and had breakfast later. We headed out to the nearby City Wall Museum to take a look at the history of the city’s wall. The displays were very well done, showing the scale of the wall and […]
6 July 2023
Hanok Bukchon Sunrise in Seoul now is about 0500. I stirred around 0600 and fell back asleep till 0740. We ventured downstairs to the good hotel breakfast around 0800. I had hoped to have an early start to avoid the expected 33 deg C heat but it wasn’t mean to be. We left around 0900 […]
5 July 2023
Above: Dongdaemun Design Plaza. Flying on the Airbus A220 We have an 1145 departure from Naha airport to Incheon today. We left by monorail after 0800 and got to the airport 3h before the flight. As today’s flight on a small plane, an A220, I didn’t expect check-in to be open that early. I did […]
8 June 2022
Oryukdo Skywalk I had made arrangements to meet an old university friend at Oryukdo Skywalk at 0945 today. As I had kept somewhat on New Zealand time, I took breakfast at 0645 and was on the bus at 0740. The ride took about an hour before getting dropped at the last stop in front of […]
7 June 2022
Bus to Busan I woke early at 0600 and took breakfast before the official time of 0800. I left soon after on a 5 min walk to the bus stop where I managed to get a bus to the Express Bus Terminal. I’m bound for Busan today and it was a lot costlier to go […]
6 June 2022
Morning walk Despite sleeping around 2300 last night, I woke at 0530 and went out for a walk around 0645. The sun was out but the forecast was for cloud and showers so I had to make the most of the weather. I found an elevated platform on a hillside where I had hoped to […]
5 June 2022
Killing time in Seoul I woke at 0530 and finished the little bit of muesli I had brought along with coffee. I have the morning to take in a few more of Seoul’s sights but nothing appealed to me. Also, things don’t really open that early in the morning here. So instead, I hit the […]
4 June 2022
Hanok Bukchon I woke at 0515 after last night’s early rest and was out at 0715 on the metro for Anguk to explore Hanok Bukchon, the traditional village area. I was hoping to get a breakfast of steamed dumplings from somewhere close to where I stayed last time. Unfortunately, at around 0800, nothing was open. […]
3 June 2022
Despite our delayed departure, we landed at Incheon on time at 1855. It’s my second visit to South Korea, having visited 11 years ago and loving it. It was a long walk from the aircraft to the health checkpoint and then immigration. I got the feeling that the Air New Zealand staff had been overzealous […]
29 June 2011
It was an early take-off at 0700 from KL so it was good that I only had to walk across the carpark from the airport hotel to the terminal. It was a pleasant 2h15 flight. Once again, AirAsia delivers me safely to my destination way ahead of the scheduled arrival of 0835! It was way […]