Goulash Soup and Bread (Hongdae, Seoul, Korea), is a cute hole-in-the-wall Hongdae cafe, which serves what else?… goulash and bread! I love discovering hidden gems, especially when it fits my diet and what this cafe offered was perfect! For a 5,000 W set-combo, the cafe serves you unlimited goulash soup, fresh-baked bread, rice and (gasp) a fresh green salad! The kind owners (a husband and wife team), knowing my vegetarian needs were cool enough to (more…)
Seeing as I’m already on my ultra favorite topic–hotels and accommodations– I’ll continue before posting my Part II to Finding Love in a Korean Love Motel: The Digs & Dives (*heh heh)…
When you think of staying in an international city like Seoul, there are few hotels you think you’ll get for under $100/night and if you do, people might caution you to it being a Korean Love motel. So when my sister found an awesome deal on Orbitz and booked my family into a hotel which didn’t have a website (only the Korea Google search pops it up), for $89/night ( 1/3 its listed website price), I had all the reason to be a little reluctant. Worried, really… The good news is (more…)
So I’ve held out on you. In the past 2 months, I’ve been to Seoul four times. I was right– I don’t hate Korea, just banal suburban existence and a bad start. Why do I know this? Because I love Seoul!
There’s something to the saying “If you’ve seen one Korean city, you’ve seen them all“. Cities here make themselves pretty redundant by using a ‘controlled urban formula’, which is mildly reminiscent to townhouse communities in the U.S. The Korean formula? Graveyard-like apartment high-rise neighborhoods, markets with food vendors, cellphone shops, theme parks with cutesy bouquet statues and enough neon light signs to (more…)
There’s only one word for my first visit to Seoul: Romance! Passion and devotion come in various forms; the best ones are those which lift us high, touching us with friendship and love. Perched atop Namsan Seoul Tower is an observation deck overlooking a breathtaking view of Seoul. Upon it, flourishes what Seoulites call The Locks of Love. What is this? Just as it says. Locks. It’s a crazy tradition that Seoul youth have started there, in the act of bringing (more…)
Outside the Daegu Express Bus Terminal (across the street of Dongdaegu Station/metro stop)
I’m always a big fan of taking the public bus to get a more local perspective, but in Korea it’s not only a culturally nice way to travel but comfortable, reliable, cheap and fast. (It’s actually faster than the slow Mungunghwa train!) The bus plays satellite television (although unless you’re by the speakers you can’t really hear anything) and it makes a pit stop at a rest station, where you can get out, stretch your legs and buy some snacks. There are no bathrooms on the bus, so if you have a small bladder, you may want to rethink. But there is also luggage storage (more…)
As a traveler trekking all around on foot, there are times you get to feeling like a bit of a rag doll Cinderella. If you’re like me and possess backpacker-explorer mentality, you’re on your tootsies from sunrise to midnight. Your feet probably wears some serious Grrr and looks like it to!
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