Travel experiences across the world
Our first full day in Portland started on the one hand marred by an early jetlagged wake up call and the anguish of having to wait for the delivery of my mom’s lost luggage, but on the other it’s been a beautiful sunny day with temperatures above 20°! I was worried that they’d deliver the… Continue reading Portland Japanese Garden, Downtown Portland
This is going to be a quick update just to introduce a new adventure: I am visiting the Pacific Northwest! After having paid a very quick visit to Portland and Seattle a few years ago as part of a longer trip (which you can read about on this very blog), I was left wishing I’d… Continue reading Arrival in Portland: Part II
I had one last morning to play with in Dublin before I had to take my flight back home, so I might as well tell you about it! I will start with the disclaimer that I didn’t have great plans for today. My initial idea was to go to the Museum of Decorative Arts, but… Continue reading Last morning in Dublin
I AM SO TIRED. I walked all over Dublin today! But in fact the day started with a very short stroll indeed, as I started by visiting the National Museum of Ireland right around the corner from my hotel. The museum is deceivingly large: when you enter, you walk into an atrium of sorts with… Continue reading National Museum of Ireland, Kilmainham Gaol
The first thing I learned today is that Dublin is absolutely overrun by Spaniards. Everyone on the street is Spanish. Most of the other guests at the hotel are Spanish. The waitresses at the hotel are all Spanish. Even I’m Spanish! What’s going on?! Anyway, for today’s cold but clear-skied morning, my first mission was… Continue reading Trinity College, Chester Beatty Library
It’s Long Weekend Trip time!! Sometimes those wonderful long-distance trips make me forget that there are so many interesting places nearby that I’m always meaning to visit, and one of those is Ireland. So I’m starting with a short trip to Dublin! I arrived in the afternoon and was surprised by the bitterly cold, sharp… Continue reading Arrival in Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland
All right, I’m stranded in Narita waiting for a massively delayed flight so I’m going to take this chance to jot down some random thoughts that didn’t make it into my Korean posts: Korean donuts are not the shape you think they are! (Spoiler: they are shaped like a long braid. They are also not… Continue reading Assorted Korean Observations
I haven’t understood the weather at any of the places I’ve been to this trip, but I REALLY don’t understand the weather in Tokyo right now. After a sunny 20°C yesterday, it’s a cloudy 10°C. This works much better for me and my winter clothes, but it’s still weird! Like yesterday, I kicked off the… Continue reading Korakuen, Jinbocho, Meiji Jingu
You know the figure of speech, the unmovable object and the unstoppable force? That’s my exhaustion from traveling at full force for two weeks versus my desire of doing a million different things in Tokyo. To start a scorchingly sunny, 20°C day on a cultural note, I went straight to Rikugien gardens, an 18th century… Continue reading Rikugien, Imperial Palace, Ginza
My trip’s not quite over yet! I left Busan this morning to take a Jeju Air flight to Tokyo. The only two things of note: Gimhae airport is a lot smaller than I thought, considering Busan has 3.5 million inhabitants (maybe that’s why there aren’t more tourists: they don’t fit!) and it’s SO HOT all… Continue reading Travel to Tokyo, Akihabara
