As the dark nights and cold weather draw closer, we've spent the last couple of weeks close to home, in Gwangju. There have been TV nights, dinner parties, lunches, shopping trips, Halloween parties, a football match, a food festival, and much more. Our time here seems to be going very fast at the moment, as we are keeping ourselves busy and spending lots of time with friends. It's strange not to be in the UK at this time of year, as here there are no signs th...

It's been a busy and exciting couple of weeks, ending in a trip to see the Korean Formula One race yesterday.Autumn is definitely here, and the temperature is dropping daily, but we've still had a lot of nice sunny days.The baseball season has ended for the Kia Tigers, as they lost last week, and the last football game of the season for Gwangju FC is next weekend.Graham went to see a couple of the last baseball games, as he got free tickets from Travis, the Austr...

Last week was a busy time for me at work, as we had tests, student reviews and a new teacher starting teaching.Whilst I was busy working, Graham went out on some day trips with some of our friends.I was very envious of him, but I did manage to make it out one evening after work to join them. Graham did lots of hiking, and also went to the Mai Son Temple of Stone Pagodas, where he got to try some smoked pork which is famous to this area.The temple looked beautiful...

Last Saturday we joined Pedro Kim again for one of his tours.This time though we took public transport so that more people could go, so 17 of us got on the bus to the Wolchulsan National Park, which is just over an hour away.We had been told it was a tough hike, with much rock climbing, so I had done a hike on Friday before work to prepare myself, but Wolhculsan nearly killed me!The hike was only about 9km, but it took 10 of us 5 hours to complete, and the remain...

Last week we went on holiday to Beijing.We had never been to China before, so we were both very excited about spending a week there, and about me having a week off from work.We arrived on the Sunday evening and took a taxi to our hostel.The airport taxi system was very well organised, and they all have meters, so you don't have to worry about being ripped off.In fact, our taxi cost about half of what the hostel had quoted us it would cost (about 7.00GBP).We were ...