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Our first trip with Adventure Korea, a company that organises trips for foreigners, proved to be a fantastic day jam packed with new experiences. After an early start we were tired an hoping to sleep on the bus on the way to Hwacheon, where the festival was held. But after … Read More

Anticipating a hangover and getting up late on new years day we didn’t plan much. We woke minus the hangover but the lie in was very much appreciated and decided to spend the day at Ueno park. There were many people doing the same as us and taking a news … Read More

Ok, I know I’m a bit behind with the old blog, but I’ve been a busy bunny! Back to New Years Eve in Japan. After spending last new year in Preston’s most cheesy nightclub, Tokyo Joe’s we searched for somewhere hip and happening to spend new year. But After asking … Read More

After a break in proceedings it is now time to get back to blogging Japan. It is now New years Eve, during the day, and we are visiting Sensoji Temple in Asakusa, Tokyo. Sensoji Temple is Tokyo’s oldest Buddhist temple, next to the temple is a Shinto shrine called Asakusa … Read More

Just having got this email from Mark I thought I’d share with you what happens when you give him a bottle of Soju (traditional Korean alcoholic beverage). A previous post about Soju can be found here. For those who you who don’t know; Mark is one of my best mates … Read More

For the last few weeks manual labourers have making appearances in the school at random intervals during the day. They haven’t actually done anything, just wondered around looking at stuff then disappeared again! The mystery of their appearance seemed to have been solved when I came into school last week … Read More

I always thought I’d celebrate my quarter of a century by getting very drunk and doing something totally irresponsible. But it was not to be – I spent my 25th birthday (Monday) at work and then having a meal with Kat. During which he only liquid that passed between my … Read More

Last weekend we once again headed for the slopes of Korea for a weekend of snowboarding. This time we went on an organised trip and went much further afield to one of Koreas top resorts, Phoenix park. Phoenix park was, much bigger then Bears town and had ….. wait for … Read More

The blog is a bit all over the place at the moment. I sent out a password protected post last week to my friends and family, for those of you not in the loop I had an interview for a copy editing job on the Korea Times last week. This … Read More

My first ever sickie: but all in a good cause! After a visit to a Buddhist temple a few weeks ago I’d accidently ended up with an interview for a copy editors job on the Korea Times. (The coming about of the interview is a long story that I hope … Read More

Our first full day in Japan was spent hiking up a Mt Takao (Takaosan) situated about an hour outside of Tokyo. Standing at 599 meters high and with walking trails up to 3.8km long Takaosan is a challenging walk, which was why we took the cable car to the half … Read More

My first piece for the Korea Times! Random, only those of you I have spoken to on the phone have a clue what I am going on about, but this is the reason for the lack of blogging recently. I am trying to decide whether to go for a job … Read More