Category Archives: Travel

Home from Korea, a wee bit of admin stuff … and a special announcement

Let’s take things in order, gentle readers. First: I’ve just returned from a quick 4-day holiday in lovely Seoul, Korea. All too short, as the usual post-trip complaint goes, but this ties in neatly with the third point (which we’ll get to later). Second: I shall put the current series of posts about my DecemberContinue reading “Home from Korea, a wee bit of admin stuff … and a special announcement”

Field Report: Gyeonghuigung and Seoul Museum of History, Seoul, South Korea (12 December 2014)

Whilst sharing many architectural features and elements of design, Seoul’s palaces aren’t just cookie-cutter replicas of each other. Every royal residence has its own unique charm, its own particular beauty … and its own long – often painful – history.

Field Report: Sungnyemun (Namdaemun), Old Seoul Station and Donuimun, Seoul, South Korea (12 December 2014)

After my morning visit to City Hall and Deoksugung, I headed south towards one of the Korean capital’s ancient gates – a prominent relic of the long centuries that Seoul spent nestled behind the protection of its formidable walls.

Field Report: Seoul City Hall and Deoksugung, Seoul, South Korea (12 December 2014)

On a cold but lovely Friday morning in Seoul, blessed with clear skies and bright winter sunshine, Diego sets off on a long stroll through the historic centre of the Korean capital.

Field Report: Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Paju, South Korea (11 December 2014) – Part 1/2

On a freezing winter’s day late in 2014, I briefly traded the dazzling wealth and modernity of Seoul for a no-man’s land of guns, mines, and hundreds of kilometres of barbed wire … a place where the Korean War drags on even now in a strange, almost surreal state of suspended animation. Welcome to theContinue reading “Field Report: Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Paju, South Korea (11 December 2014) – Part 1/2”