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Category: Korea

  • Korea: A Coffee Quote To Make You Giggle

    Korea: A Coffee Quote To Make You Giggle

    Welcome to week 234 (06/25/2105) of Travel Photo Thursday. It’s been a busy end of semester week (all finished…yay), and Indy is sick (poor girl). Her hair is falling out badly (she has no hair left on her hind legs, and there is a big bald patch on her right leg), so I took her…

  • Korea and MERS: What Travelers Need to Know

    Korea and MERS: What Travelers Need to Know

    Barqash Camel Market, Egypt 2004… Fast forward to today, and I am sitting at my computer in Korea Googling “camel urine” + mers. I hold my breath, and am gobsmacked when I see 87,500 hits, and the top hit is from WHO (World Health Organization). It seems I am onto the reason why the Korean…

  • Buddha’s Birthday in Seoul

    Buddha’s Birthday in Seoul

    Welcome to week 228 (05/21/2015) of Travel Photo Thursday. It’s that time of year again in Seoul and Korea, Buddha’s Birthday.  The actual holiday is May 25th, but the Koreans have been celebrating since last weekend with the Lotus Lantern Festival. However, you will still find lots happening at the temples on May 25th, and, if…

  • Damyang, Korea for Travel Photo Thursday

    Welcome to the 227th edition (05/14/2015)  of Travel Photo Thursday, and the BIG birthday. This is the first time that my birthday has fallen on Travel Photo Thursday, and I’ve also moved into a new decade (gulp!). I’m not much of a party animal, and wanted to do something different for this birthday. A friend…