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Archive for January, 2007

Carolers

About 1am we looked out of our 11th floor window as we thought we saw movement down below. We opened the sliding doors and there were over 50 carolers each holding a candle walking from apartment building to apartment building. It was pure magic, even for Scroogey Sean. Nothing like unexpected music filling the night…
We [...]

Christmas Eve

We began our CE in Insadong. I think this might be my favourite area of Seoul thus far. It is a cobblestone lined pedestrian-only drag which is lit by gentle lamps and looks like you’ve stepped through some sort of weird time vortex into another time. While many of the small shops and street vendors [...]

Pictures

Hello All,
Just a quick note on pictures. We are having some trouble with our flickr (photo) plugin and have yet to configure our video plugin (accessible through google video). In the meantime, please feel free to check out the pics we keep referring to directly at www.flickr.com/photos/themulloskeys or searching google video for clips posted by [...]

The day before Christmas Eve we decided to follow up on a hot tip from Mark B’s friend Karen. She had informed us that there are COSTCO’s (Price Club for you old schoolers) here in Seoul. Sure enough, we tracked down their Korean website and found the directions. Our trip was meant to be about [...]

Kan-Sai Airport

What a technical marvel. This whole thing was built on an island; and island which was created for its purpose and previously did not exist. For those of you who love Discovery Channel you know what I am talking about. It was so cool being able to see it first hand. I must have seen [...]

On our way out….

We had about an hour to kill before we needed to catch our train back to the airport. We wandered through a department store where we found a specialty cheese shop. They had St. Andre for $15. I was so tempted to get it but I figured since we were going to Costco the [...]

After the ride on the bullet train we arrived in Shin-Osaka station. Figuring out the subway system is quite the challenge as I explained earlier. Osaka is a fairly large city but there are hundreds of subway stops on tens of lines to choose from. All tickets must be purchased by automated machine. You [...]

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