Category: 5 “Esses” Tour South Korea, Singapore. Suzie, Susie and Stuey

Awake early after another blogging issue, still not sorted overnight. But think I finally got it back and running and updated mid arvo. Phew. A brief visit to the Botanical Gardens at 9am with gardens representing countries – Italian, French, Japanese, Korean and native Korean. Also a monster of a hothouse with observation tower. Worth…

First task this am was to rewrite yesterday’s blog which froze at upload. ‘Not happy Jan’ was an understatement. Breaky was extensive and had a cute kids section which captured our attention. All low for kids and the dumplings were different animals. Alex talked to us about the Stone Grandfathers (reminiscent of the Rapa Nui…

Up and at em earlier – breaky at 6:45am and we were first there. Pick up by Alex at 8am for our 9:55 flight to Jeju Island, an island at the south of South Korea. The picture window this morning was overcast as rain is forecast here in Busan, but should be clear by the…

Woke to another sun shiny day in Busan. With a large picture window looking to the view of mountains beyond the city. We are in another Lotte hotel here is Busan, on the 20th floor this time. Pretty flash. So happy today! We headed over the bridge. Alex did his research re: Sky Capsule at…

First stop after great Lotte Breaky. And today I’m TRYING to reduce size of blog. A great Lotte Breaky to start the day, with some English translation issues. BTW the butcher mousely (Bircher muesli) was very nice. Our first stop today is Old Busan’s Gamcheon Village. This is basically a slum area built from the…

Woke to foggy outlook nothing to be seen initially. Breaky – took some vids and a few pics. today. Today being Friday Alex explained that we need to arrive either before 5 or after 7pm to Busan. Lots of people working there or in companies nearby make their way home either from or to Busan…

A long night downloading my camera cards and writing blog last night. Up early to see if it was worth a pre-breaky look at Hanok Village- it was overcast so no good light. A couple of quick shots from hotel. RF – At Lotte Hotel there was no Fourth floor it was ‘dot’ as thr…

Packed up 90% last night. Up and finalised the packing and left my gear in Suzie’s room as she had convinced them to check her out last night (against Hotel policy). I checked out before breaky and did back at Suzie’s room. Breaky with a few more pics. It’s an awesome spread. Back on the…

Breaky photo tour – I took some more shots of the very extensive breakfast at Lotte Hotel Seoul. Then it was a cab to the ‘C’ Palace and Secret Garden aiming to arrive early to see if we can secure tickets to the Secret Garden tours. English speaking tours sold out online, so our last…

Today is the first of two free days here in Seoul. Our plans were made last night over a G&T. Suzie and I went for breaky a bit earlier than our 8:30 plan. It’s a fabulous spread – so many choices. I will post some more pics each day. This morning Susie M pulled up…