cerealjoe | Random photos from Seoul (1) (Reply)

Alright. Here are some random photos from the guesthouse I stayed at that one night in Seoul and some random cookies.

I think the wallpaper was probably the best thing about the room. I have to admit that I kind wished I had booked in a hotel... because well, I do have the money and obviously the standard for guesthouses around the world is not the same everywhere. Ah well, lesson learnt, we'll see how the Korean hotels compare.

I know I'm not one of those travellers who spent months travelling and who will settle for pretty much anywhere for a night. But I do tell myself this is my first holiday abroad somewhere not visiting family (such problems with having a small family but that is all over the place) or not for work/uni reasons (and therefore with the hotel paid). It also makes me a bad CSer but hey, I like to host... and when I'm travelling usually I like to be independent and so I'm ok with paying for my stay.

Anywho, all this to say that if anyone wants some info on Kim's Guesthouse in Seoul, I have some photos of the room, bathroom, etc. Let's say that it definitely wasn't a B&B like I have experienced in SF or Paris but it was clean enough and the people staying there were also lovely.

These cookies reminded me of the koala cookies I got at the Shanghai airport.

I admit that I kind of fell in love with the colours on the box.

These weren't anything to write home about but you can literaly write stuff on the box and give them to someone. I wonder if I can just send the box of those to someone abroad.

Another thing I've known about Korea for quite a while from different sources is that they have cute pillows and blankets. If you sleep "Korean style" apparently you don't use sheets and people will wash the blankets quite often. The washing process is quite fun too (apparently again, have never tried it), you put the blankets in a huge bucket, put detergent and water and step on them to wash. Like 'take off your socks, roll up your trousers' kind of step on them, kind of like squishing grapes. (If you're curious, Kyuhyun and Sungmin did the washing bit on one of those shows they appeared on, it was like "Take care of the kids" or something like that, just YouTube it.)

Breakfast at the guesthouse. Really not for OCD people about cleanliness.

Sunflowers! Yes, I perhaps like those flowers quite a bit... but always remind me of smiles.

Right now I'm at Gimpo airport, my flight leaves in about an hour... I was planning on getting a proper Korean style breakfast or lunch here but my stomach has jetlag. Just looking at the food here made me rather queasy. So it seems that I'm doing pretty good in terms of sleeping (although getting up was hard) but not in terms of eating.