When you think of Korea (or Asia in general), you might think there is mainly a tea culture over there. Think again! Although there is no denying that tea goes back a long way in Asia and still is highly popular, coffee has become more and more en vogue. Seoulites must really, really love their […]
Gyeonbokgung Palace, Seoul.
It was a gloomy, cold, snowy saturday; the kind of day that I would prefer to stay in the hotel and work on my blog or pictures or something like that. But for Frits is was one of the few occasions he had to do some sightseeing. So of we went, to see Gyeonbokgung Palace. […]
Gangnam Style
Wether you liked the song and videoclip or not, it is sheer impossible that ‘Gangnam Style’ does not ring a bell. Unless you lived under a rock. Or are 80+ years old. Psy’s music video went viral all around the globe. The song sure has put Seoul’s neighborhood Gangnam on the map. It is an upperclass […]
Ice Cream in winter
It was a really cold day when I explored Insa-Dong in Seoul, yet I decided to buy me some ice cream. Soft-ice cream, to be precise, which I don’t even like. So why then, you may wonder. Because of the cone, people, it’s all about the cone!!! Technically I think it is not even a […]
Bau House Dog Cafe in Seoul
It’s no secret that I am a HUGE animal lover. I simply adore cats and dogs! I grew up with dogs, but in my adult life I always had cats, since that is more doable if you tend to travel a lot. My last cat died a couple of months ago and for the first […]
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, […]
