Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

I typically greatly enjoy botanical gardens. Hence, if there’s one in a city I’m visiting and I’m there during a season when the flora is...

I had a somewhat late lunch at a small restaurant near the National Museum of Korea, where I was this morning. I then took in...

Still in Seoul, I spent the better part of the morning, and a bit more, in the National Museum of Korea. For definitional purposes, I...

I had read about Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream even before I’d considered coming to Korea. In fact, while I can’t remember what led me to choose...

This was a palace morning for me in Seoul. I visited two, Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung. That was less daunting than it sounds. Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung...

If you read my morning post about the DMZ tour I took today, you know that it didn’t actually get into the DMZ in the...

I think that when you visit Seoul, you have to visit the DMZ. As far as I know, there’s no law requiring it. It’s just...

This afternoon in Seoul, I visited two parks, Seoul Forest and Hangang Park. There’s not much to report on that. So this should, theoretically, be...

The title of this post, Lotte World Aquarium & Tower, might be misleading. There isn’t an entity called Lotte World Aquarium & Tower. There is...

In this morning’s post about Gyeongbokgung Palace, I mentioned that my first destination of the afternoon would be a sight right next door. That’s the...