Mulloskeys Adventures Abroad

Hello loyal readers. Well, undeserving as we are of your loyalty of late, we hope you will trust that a series of both fortunate and unfortunate events have caused us to fall SERIOUSLY behind on our blogging. Chalk it up to living, adventuring, houseguests (more on the return of Scott later), and yet another food [...]

For all of you FLAP fans out there. Follow our good friend to China… to Tianmen Square, under Mao’s gate,  to the Forbidden City, up the Great Wall and more… Click on the photos section.

Well friends, we’re off to China. We’ll post when we return. In the meantime check out the new album of Early April in Seoul with the Seoul Cherry Blossom Festival etc. It’s in the photos section. Look out Mao, the Mulloskeys are about to teach you all about the left.

Check out this excerpt from a lecture in one of my upper level classes. Subject: Culture Shock.
“Well, generally speaking, we could say that there are four stages to culture shock. First of all, the “honeymoon” stage. To the visitor, everything seems new, quaint and novel. The food, the surroundings, the buildings, and it produces a [...]

Friends and people who are wasting time at work….Please scroll down a few posts as our post on DMZ was marked as private so none of you could read it. Situation remedied. Giv’er a look see.

Jen and Mike spent the next two days doing tours of their own while Erin and I worked. We had hopes of hitting a Nore-bong (Singing room) but Erin and I got sick the last 2 days they were here. Nevertheless, We still spent our last few days enjoying each other’s company and introducing them [...]

We decided to take a “jump off, jump on” bus tour around Seoul. It was a great idea. Erin and I have seen almost all there is to see, but all by subway. Until this day we had little orientation as to where everything was in relation to the other. This was a great idea [...]

We hit up Insa-dong after the DMZ tour. This is a trendy area with great shops, street vendors, all laid out on a car-free cobblestone street. Is as European as Asia gets. We grabbed some road-pops and did some touring. There are some absolutely beautiful little restaurants hidden in a maze of alleys off the [...]

On Saturday we (Jen Mike, Erin and I) headed into Seoul to meet up with our tour group. We had booked a DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) tour for the day. It’s less than an hours drive from Seoul; eerily close.The last 15 minutes of the drive is on an empty highway bordered on either side by [...]

What an unbelievable treat to have the esteemed Jen and Mike Mulqueen come and visit us. Erin went to meet them and show them to our apartment while I was finishing up my last classes for the day. Walking home was the strangest feeling. It was hard to believe that there, in our apartment right [...]