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India - Part 2
On April 29th, Chloë, Peter and I woke up early for our sunrise tour and first up-close visit to the Taj Mahal. Now it’s finally time for...
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Apr 16, 20247 min read
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India - Part 1
My flight from Sydney to Delhi on April 25 was not direct; I was flying with Cathay Pacific via Hong Kong. I had a 5-hour layover in Hong...
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Mar 24, 20247 min read
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Singapore & New Zealand's North Island
Once I was finally allowed to board my flight from Vientiane to Singapore, the flight was uneventful, thankfully. I landed around 6:30pm...
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Jun 17, 20237 min read
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Northern Thailand and Laos
My flight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai landed pretty late, so I took a taxi to my hostel and immediately went to sleep. In the morning, I...
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Jun 11, 202314 min read
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Cambodia
On March 13, we left our beloved Vietnamese tour guide, Bunny, in Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon and boarded our bus across the border into...
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May 31, 20239 min read
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Vietnam: Hoi An to Ho Chi Minh City
I arrived in Hoi An around 7pm on March 7 and took an Uber to my hostel. I dropped my stuff and headed out to explore and to find some...
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May 24, 202310 min read
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Vietnam: Hanoi to Hue
On March 1, I arrived in Hanoi. My flight landed in the mid-afternoon and I splurged on a taxi from the airport to my hostel (because the...
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May 12, 20239 min read
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Winter in Korea
I flew from Bangkok back to Seoul on an overnight flight on New Year's Day, then immediately had a full week of school to look forward...
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Feb 26, 20234 min read
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Lunar New Year in Japan
If you've read any of my other blog posts, you might remember my multiple other attempts to get to Japan. I really hoped to go during our...
abundantlyclare
Feb 5, 202313 min read
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Christmas in Thailand
On December 24, Julia and I got to the airport around 9:30am for our flight to Bangkok that was leaving at 11:20. We boarded a little bit...
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Jan 24, 202311 min read
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Julia comes to Seoul!
On December 15, I had a hard time sleeping because I kept waking up in the night to check the progress of flight AC61 from Toronto to...
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Jan 15, 20237 min read
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Fall in Korea
As I'm guessing anyone who reads this blog already knows, I love to keep busy, but fall here in Seoul was even busier than usual. We...
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Dec 11, 20228 min read
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Jeju and the DMZ with MaryBeth
On September 28, my friend MaryBeth came to visit. She landed at Incheon airport in the late afternoon, and I left school at 6 and...
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Nov 6, 202212 min read
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Summer in Seoul and a Weekend in Malaysia
I feel like I blinked and it's already mid-October. I don't know where the summer went! But somehow I fell behind on keeping my blog...
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Oct 14, 20228 min read
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The Philippines: A Week in Paradise
During my 12-month teaching contract in South Korea, I get two full weeks off as well as a long weekend for public holidays almost every...
abundantlyclare
Aug 7, 202223 min read
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Boseong and Busan
On May 28, my alarm went off at 4:45am so that I could catch the first subway at 5:30. We had booked a day trip to the southwestern...
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Jun 21, 20228 min read
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Weekend in Sokcho
My friend Josh's birthday was at the end of March, and my other friend Peter had the idea that we should treat him to a weekend away for...
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May 15, 20226 min read
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Nami Island (and more!)
Since coming to South Korea, I haven't written one of my more traditional sightseeing blog posts because I didn't really have the...
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Apr 24, 20225 min read
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Moving to Seoul
Well, now that I've been in South Korea for a month, I figured it's time to update my blog! For my first post about Korea, I'm doing an...
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Mar 14, 20229 min read
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