A tale of temples, traditional living and snake charming (hurling). Due to the magic of Korea’s education system, I found myself with a day off a few weeks ago. With winter approaching fast, I made the most of those last … Continue reading
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Journey Update, Week 13
Another week has rushed past, and it was a very special one too as yesterday marked our quarter year anniversary of living in Korea! How mad is that?! Despite all of the travelling and all of the excitement and preparation … Continue reading
Teaching English in Korea, the realities
A good friend recently pointed out how sick he was of our blog. He said that all we do is gush about how awesome our lives are, while making him jealous with our wonderful photos. It’s true, we do gush. … Continue reading
Journey Update, Week 12
This past week can be summed up quite nicely with two F-words. Friends and food. Between finishing off the first series of Boardwalk Empire with nightly showings with two of our wonderful Uiseong chums, and heading to Yeongcheon to visit … Continue reading
An afternoon amble at Jagalchi Fish Market, Busan
One of Lonely Planet’s top things to do in Busan is the Jagalchi fish market so, being lovers of both fish and markets, we knew we had to take Oli’s parents there during our Busan weekender. We had such a … Continue reading
The motorcycle diaries – Trip 1, day 2/2
Welcome back to the motorcycle diaries. For those of you who have just joined us, these are a set of posts that aim to show you our view of Korea on two wheels. If you missed the first half, you … Continue reading
Journey update, week 11
Until today, it has been a very boring work week as school performance practice meant no lessons for a full seven days. Desk warming can be a blessing when you want to get stuff done, but when that stuff is … Continue reading
The Motorcycle Diaries – First trip, day 1/2
Inspired by Che we’ve decided to begin a new series of posts termed the motorcycle diaries. As Jade has told you all, I recently bought a bike, and it’s the best decision I’ve made since arriving in Korea. We want … Continue reading
Journey update, week 10
Oli and I have made the executive decision to axe Insta-challenge weekly in favour of a more general photo update of what we’ve been up to. He isn’t using his phone or Instagram as much these days as he is … Continue reading
A brief ode to journeys
It is 7am and the sun shines like the moon, low in the sky. A pale yellow disk behind thin clouds. Our bus pulls out of Uiseong and the mountains, farm lands and quiet villages roll by my steamy window. … Continue reading