Friday we were invited to an authentic Korean BBQ pork restaurant, named Uncle Tong’s. You can see and read all about that entertaining evening here. Yesterday, while exploring Ihwa Mural Village, I ran into a whole other type of Korean meat, maybe best named Uncle’s Thing;-). Ihwa-dong is situated near Naksan Park, against a hill, […]
Korean BBQ at Uncle Tong’s Seoul
During our first week in Seoul, I had dinner by myself most nights, since Frits came back to the hotel quite late. Last week he managed to get back to the hotel on time each night, so we were able to have dinner together. Nice! But yesterday, friday evening, there was a dinner scheduled with […]
Where to find street art and murals in Seoul?
As I said before in my post about ’10 things you did not know about Seoul’, there is a lot of art in Seoul. That includes street art, murals and graffiti. There are remarkably many cats portrayed in the street art; totally up my alley! Alley? Did I say ‘alley’? How appropriate!;-) There are several areas that […]
Simone Handbag Museum Seoul
Strolling through Garuso-gil, I stumbled upon the Simone Handbag Museum. We have a handbag museum in the Netherlands too, the Tassenmuseum Hendrikje in Amsterdam, which I never got around to visit. So here I was presented with a chance to visit a handbag museum and I decided to check it out. The building itself is very […]
Trick Eye Museum Seoul
So we went to the Trick Eye Museum, according to Tripadvisor the number 1 attraction in Seoul. Nevertheless our high-end hotel had no clue what that museum was, let alone where it was, so there we had a bit of a challenge;-). Luckily I found an address on the web. The concierge of our hotel kindly translated […]
Changing of the Royal guards at Gyeongbokgung Palace
We were lucky to witness the Changing of the Royal Guards during our visit to the Gyeongbokgung Palace. This is a ritual that is done three times per day. It’s cancelled during very hot weather and during very cold weather. When we were there, on quite a cold and snowy day, it was still on, […]
Street photography Seoul
Summer is so much more fun for fashion then cold seasons, in my opinion. Warm weather means happy colors, light fabrics, summer dresses, bare legs and no coats. Cold weather means layering up, which already makes you look more massive then you really are. The streets are filled with people in dark coats, with red […]
Bukchon Hanok Village, Seoul.
It was a snowy saturday when we decided to explore Bukchon Hanok Village, a 600 year old neighborhood of Seoul. Why go then, you may wonder. Well, for Frits it was his only day of from work for sightseeing. So of we went. The neighborhood is a maze of winding -up and down- alleys and […]
Dongdaemun Design Park & Plaza, Seoul
On the former location of the Dongdeamun’s baseball and soccer stadium, now exciting architecture is rising. Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid has designed a huge multi-functional complex. Supposed to be finished in 2010, the building and site are still ‘under construction’ today. But it is said that it should be ready now this april (2014). We […]
Secret Garden of Changdeokgung
“T-t-t-thank y-y-you…k-k-k….”, I tried to say to the tour guide. It did not come out smoothly, because my teeth chattered from the cold and my jaws seemed almost frozen. Shaking and shivering I gratefully took the small heat pack between my gloved hands. I could hardly feel my hands and feet at that moment. Boy, […]
