No More Soju….

First of all, a medical update:

1 – my eye is 100% healed. The “infection” lasted about 3 days. I still think it was a burst blood vessel (but I’ll be keeping those eye drops ;) )

2 – For the first time in about 2 months, I don’t have any purple skin on my feet! ^^ Screw you Cork! I’m delighted I won’t be training on your rough floor this weekend!

So set your minds at ease people, Siobhán is healthy.

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It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times

Today was the halfway point of my time in Korea. It began as the worst day ever, but ended as one of the best.

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What The Folk?!?!

Well, you all didn’t pray hard enough – I didn’t get to go to Insadong on Saturday.

Bizarrely enough, my family decided to use that rainy day to go to the predominantly OUTDOORS Folk Village near Suwon, about 2 hours away in the car.

Like everything else I’ve seen so far, it was a-ma-zing. (!)

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Seoul Sister

First off, let me say that this has nothing to do with the tragi-comic demise of the famous PopSeoul blog. RIP in Peace.

The title refers to my very first visit to Seoul on Friday 25th. It was…underwhelmed. I had a great day but all that I saw of Seoul was through the train window. We went to the National Museum of Korea and if there was anything else nearby, I didn’t see it. But that’s enough moaning for now – have some pictures:

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