Asia 2016

Long Way Home

Survived! At the end of the last blog entry, we were just about to get onto our first overnight flight, and we’ve finally finished our second night of flying. After the fun

16 Dec 2016
Asia 2016

Slightly Wrong Turn

Waking up in luxury seems to be roughly the same as waking up anywhere else. You feel tired and want to go to bed. When the bed is more comfortable, even more so.

15 Dec 2016
Asia 2016

Country of Lights

It was far too early when we had to get up, it was -6 degrees when we were standing outside for the shuttle, and after it still hadn’t turned up 15 minutes

25 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

Too Cold

We finally spotted our first Caucasian in Busan. In the train station, basically as we were leaving. We're going to however regard them as the exception that proves the rule, Busan is for

24 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

Busan (부산)

After yesterday’s beautiful night views in the non-freezing night, we discovered that the temperature does not appear to have gone up during the day again. Which was not a good sign for

23 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

Properly Lost

Getting to Busan was the easy part. We knew the Metro well enough that getting to the main station was a piece of cake. From there we only needed to try 3 ATM's

22 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

There's no stopping the night, only the train.

It is currently three in the morning so maybe we stick with the quick version today. We finally managed to find the night life district of Seoul and somehow thought that things might

21 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

North Korea (조선민주주의인민공화국)

People keep on telling us that North Korea is a scary place, which I guess made the quote of “I’m going to die! And I thought the plane was going to kill

20 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

Cats

Apparently going to bed earlier does not really improve our mood for stepping out the door. But at least I get to have hot showers when I head into the bathroom. For everybody

19 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

Seoul (서울)

After yesterdays heavy fall on the mattress, this morning brought a very vigorous start. By which I mean, there's no intelligence before noon and even standing upright required at least double digits. Korea

18 Nov 2016
Asia 2016

Close call past Tokyo

After a lot of grumbling and discussions about whether this flight is too early or actually too late, we could all agree on the fact that it was at the wrong time, once

17 Nov 2016