Well, its been a bit of a dry spell recently with no trips or fancy happenings to write about.. but this past weekend I went on a quick jaunt across the ditch to Korea.  Shizu and I flew into Seoul on Friday night, and flew out again on Tuesday morning.. and although it was a good trip, if we did it again, there are many things we would do differently.  For example, dont catch the train from the airport to central Seoul - it takes far too long.  I think the bus would be better.  Stay at a "sauna" place, like the one we stumbled across in Meong Dong, but once you enter, you cant exit and come back again.  But for less than $15 it was brilliant value, not to mention relaxingly good.  And they have changed the lockers at the stations so you cant just use cash (except the one at Nandaemun station - exit 6).  Using the Subway system is great, once you figure it out..

Other than that, the food was good (a tad not to my liking sometimes).  The markets were fun but crowded.  The Palace was interesting and far more 'colourful' than Japans.  Unfortuantley we left our temple trek till Monday, which ended up being the hottest day and neither of us were 100% well, (so admittedly we short-cutted it a bit).  We also meet up with Aaron and saw the recently hurridely built Ansan - foreigner town.  Shizus friend Minami also shwoed us around and helped with Korean since I can still only say a total of 2 phrases.  To be honest though, with Japanese and English we could get by in most situations. 

I think the highlight for me though, was going up the Seoul Tower and sitting having a decent coffee while waiting for all the city lights to come on.  And then having dinner just down the hill a bit, at an open roof-top restaurant with fantastic views.