Maybe I'm simple. (NO COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY!) I don’t go into things with a lot of preconceptions or prejudice. At least, I try not to. I don’t know what I expected from Venice but it was awesome. To start, after a relaxing 20 minute ride, the water taxi ride dropped us right in front of the hotel. The hotel we stayed at was easy walking distance to everything but removed enough to not be crowded. St Mark’s was three water blocks...

Its always good to get the snafus of a trip over with at the beginning of a trip, but 3:20am may be a little too early. I had scheduled a pick up at our house for 3:30am. Who wants to drive at that hour? And we were scheduled to come home at 10:30pm after 21 hours of travel and jet lag. Hmmm, sounds like fun. I say I had scheduled at 3:30am pick up until I spoke with the driver the night before. After thinking about it, we decided to change the pickup time to 3:1...

Not much to say execpt, at least it wasn't Newark. We found a resturant, ate lunch, had a couple of drinks, walked around and bought some magazines. Tempted to go out to the city but with my luck, decided that may not be smart...

More layers of borrowed clothes and we're ready to go again. Today starts with the subway to downtown where we catch a bus to Deoksugung Palace. This is where they king lived while the other palace was being rebuilt. Next bus stop was Namdaemun Market. Namdaemun market is one of the oldest continually running markets in South Korea, and it may be the largest retail market in Seoul. The streets in which the market is located were built in a time when cars wer...

Our last day we met the kid and walked across the street to Central City Mall for lunch. I tell you, Mall of America would look puny compared to the malls we saw in Asia. Huge doens't cover it; try sprawling! And they have everything and anything you could want to but, do or use. Silly as it may seem, we ate at Pizza Hut. Korean Pizza is loaded with veggies and very good. Yes, pepperoni and mushrooms were available too. We headed back to the Hotel and said ou...