cerealjoe | Final photos from Korea! (Reply)

Thank you, Korea, it has been fun!

I've been back to Finland for a day and a half now and it seems that the worst of the jet lag is gone. The weirdest part is that I can clearly remember that some things happened on Friday night, like my mum calling, but I can't remember the details. It's so fuzzy...

The flight back was pretty good, I had a tall Finn next to me and those love to steal leg space. Actually it was rather funny because in Korea I don't know if it was because I was a foreigner or because I stank or something but people generally tried to avoid touching me. They didn't mind bumping or anything but if I sat next to them on the metro, they clearly tried to keep their limbs from touching me. On the plane, my Korean neighbour tried her best to leave me room... my Finnish neighbour not so much, our knees became bffs by the end of the flight.

I also watched some random Chinese film, The Storm Warrios. The point of the film still eludes me. But damn, did those guys have fancy wigs! Or if those weren't wigs, they have pretty damaged hair. In any case, it was one of those films that really should have just stayed a manga... or been about 15 hours long. Or had some sex scenes in it. Just basically after watching it I was glad I didn't waste "useful" time on that.

Finally got around to watching the Doctor Who finale. I'm sorry to say that I still don't really like this season.

When I woke up it was pouring outside. All the way to the airport it was pouring. And then we landed in Helsinki to blue skies and perfectly white fluffy clouds.

This is the only "KitKat" I saw in Korea. It's not even a KitKat. I don't know if Crown is owned by Nestlé but probably not. So the end of the story is that I will really have to head to Japan to try out those crazy flavours. So close yet so far away! (and I don't even like KitKats... see, this is all marketing getting to my head, it's bad!)

And that's the final post with photos taken locally in Korea (up until I get the Diana Mini film developed but there are still over a dozen shots to be taken before the film is done). I think in total I've posted over 320 photos in the past two weeks... sorry for the spammage but at least I won't huge back logs as I did with Shanghai.

The last post-holiday load of laundry is almost done downstairs, I sent in some work related messages on Friday night, I guess this really means the holidays are over! They restart for a week or so in 26 days though when it's time to move out of Finland. Bah.

And I don't even get to go to a single Tour de France stage this year! They're passing way too far from both Marseille and Toulouse for me to make an effort to fly over so a few days.