Sep 16
The second installment of Snapshot Sunday is staying close to my current home. When most people think of Busan, they think of the busy Haeundae Beach. But a few miles down the road is Gwangalli, a small strip of sand with some lively bars and restaurant. Gwangalli is particularly beautiful at night when the bridge is lit [...]
This week’s Flashback Friday is a little different, and a little special. This post is the first by a guest author on Farsickness! I started Flashback Friday as a way to tell stories about traveling I’d done before I started blogging. A lot of these stories come from my time in Europe as a student [...]
Jeju City is the perfect base for exploring the larger than expected Jeju Island. Its proximity to both the airport and ferry dock (about a 10-20 minutes drive to either) make coming and going easy. In addition, because it is the largest city is possible to find a bus route to just about anywhere on [...]
Jeju Island is not small. I wasn’t really aware of this fact until Tara told me when we booked our tickets. I naively figured that since it was an island, one that is traveled often, all the sights would be near to each other. Not the case. Because of this Tara and I focused on [...]
Sep 9
Today marks the first day of a new series for my blog! A lot of photos that I take don’t make it into my blog posts and I’ve decided to feature one of these photos a week in a series called Snapshot Sunday. Today’s photo comes from my little blogged about trip to Bali. I [...]
After Tara and I scrapped all of our initial Jeju plans, we had to go back the proverbial drawing board (or in this case, back to the guidebook) and figure out what we really wanted to see and do on our vacation. Which turned out to be find more beautiful beaches. When we got to [...]
On Jeju Island I completely miscalculated my level of endurance. I am horribly out shape. It’s been embarrassingly long since I last did any sort of physical activity that would count as exercise. But when presented with the idea of climbing up some stairs for 20 minutes to get to the top of Seongsan Ilchulbong, a volcanic [...]
Aug 31
Oh, August. While I had a wonderful month of travel around Korea, I struggled a little with the blogging. I didn’t hit a groove writing while on the road, something I’m going to need to figure out, and was backlogged and stressed with the new semester when I got back to Seoul. Excuses aside, I’m [...]
Alternatively titled, how our plans went to shit. In the best way possible. In the few hours after Tara and I arrived in Jeju, we sat over plates of delicious Indian food (more on that in a post next week) and sussed out some plans for our three fulls days on the island. Number one [...]
During my summer vacation around Korea I realized why so many people are proponents of slow travel. In my earlier (or as much as it pains me to say this, younger) days I had no problem bouncing around. A new city every few days, no time for rest, a flight every weekend. Throw in some [...]
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