Saturday 16th July - arrive in Busan. For such a large city, Busan has a very relaxed, holiday feel to it. But first things first, we needed to stock up on toiletries and snacks so we headed to Home Plus. This chain of supermarkets has some connection to Tesco so a handful of familiar products were on the shelves. As a result, Chris is now currently enjoying a cup of Tesco Finest Assam tea with breakfast!  For our first evening we headed out to one of the seven...

Friday 8th July - Seoraksan. This is a mountain in a national park and is said to be the most beautiful one in Korea. There are several treks you can do in the area so we started easy and headed to a waterfall first. The walk took us along a river for about half an hour before you reached the waterfall. It was very pretty and, because the Koreans haven't just put concrete stairs everywhere like the Chinese, we got to scrabble over rocks which made it a bit more f...

Saturday 2nd July - Dongdaemun Design and Culture Museum, TrickEye Museum, National Folk Museum and Nanta. We ended up at the Dongdaemun museum by accident as we'd got it confused with another museum. Still, it was an interesting site. It used to be a sports stadium but that's been knocked down for a Teletubbies-meets-Star Trek collection of buildings. It's still in the process of being built though, and the parts that were open didn't really house very much. The...

We've had our first week in Seoul, and it's been wonderful! For those of you who don't know, Lindsay lived out here for a year five years ago, teaching English. This is the first chance she's had to revisit it. It'll be interesting to see how it has changed. Sunday 26th June - arrived in Seoul. Compared to China, Seoul is wonderfully quiet! We had our first taste of Korean hospitality at the airport when two workers at the airport saw us looking a bit lost and h...

Sunday 19th June - arrived back in Shanghai. Second time round, Shanghai doesn't seem nearly so scary! All the noise and hustle and bustle seem perfectly normal. Or perhaps we've been in China too long! We're not staying at the dismal Captain Hostel we stayed in before. Instead we're staying at the Rock and Wood Youth Hostel, which was recommended to us by someone in Guilin. It's a bit more pricey but the communal areas and rooms are lovely. However, other facil...