Gyeongbokgung Palace, National Palace Museum of Korea & Going Home

Just before heading home, we visited this site: Gyeongbokgung Palace.

Unfortunately, while it looks nice and sunny, it isn't! It's freezing cold @ -13C (officially) but the weather app says -18C! And Little One was really unprepared... and so were we; to be honest.

Hence, just a few shots and we high tailed it to the ...

National Palace Museum of Korea to get warmed up (and we weren't the only people taking advantage of the heaters!) :D

Say CHEEEESE... looks like it's smiling eh?

What an old car... and how different the current generation of cars are in comparison to these derelicts.

There were other exhibits and even a cafe\restaurant if you're hungry from all that walking.

Even in the station, there are... 'monuments'

On our way out to Seoul Incheon Airport, this caught my attention: A Giant Bear and and Windmill. Something you don't see frequently, or at all!

So long Seoul. It was a pleasure to visit you...

The End.

Lotte Aquarium

There's Coex Aquarium and then, there's Lotte Aquarium; located in the Lotte World Theme Park. So why would we want to visit another aquarium? Read on and you'll eventually find out why...

But first, a little walk through the Lotte World 'Park'... to get to our tickets.
If you just wanted to visit the aquarium, boy oh boy, what a hassle and a walk to get to the aquarium... Maybe we got off at the wrong station \ line. But, what a walk it was. Both indoors and outdoors.

ANYway, and finally, we made it to the Aquarium. This looks kinda familiar...

What hey! A robo fish! Really, this robotic fish swims amongst the real live ones. If it wasn't for the flashy and transparent lights, you wouldn't know... from the first glance. :)

More familiar fishies...

Seals diving around...

And finally, we come to the masterpiece... a two storey high viewing deck. But that's not all...

What's this?

Beluga saying hi to Little One! And boy, were all the kids excited as the belugas are very playful... not to mention entertaining. Which is it's second highlight.

Moving on... another of Little One's favourite creature's hiding in plain sight.

His Pacific Octopus...

And a ray swimming by to say hello!

Lotte isn't all about just viewing from outside. How about a 3 meter crawling tunnel?

With 'corals' made of plastic? Interesting eh?

Hmmm... Food here in the Aquarium?

Yup! A cafe right there at the 'viewing deck'. Allowing you to eat, relax and watch the fish swim by... making this it's 3rd highlight.

It's certainly more kid friendly and like Birmingham Aquarium, very children friendly; think informal (Lotte) vs Formal (Coex).

This Eagle Ray was Very friendly with the diver. Or maybe hungry? :)

It's finally time to head back to our apartment and along this exit, we decided to get this local delicacy for Little One:

And yes, very yummy.

The End.

Christmas in Seoul (2018)

We came across this biscuit and boy, Little One went bonkers over it! To the point, we bought a huge box of 24 pieces at the airport for him... :P

What hey! What is it? Well, Christmas was just the next day and there's muffins or rather Manoffin. A set of 4 for 10,000 won.
Nice.

I also decided to try something else... since this cost way much lower than a comparable fast food, I decided to give it a go.

So... what do you get? Quite a lot from the looks of it. And quite yummy too...!

In my small little family of three, we have a little tradition or rather we created one of our own: Every Christmas, we would have a Christmas Log Cake. So here it is... in Seoul. Bought from Paris Baguette ...

And complete with a Christmas Day visit to the Cathedral... which unfortunately, had services running, so weren't allowed to enter.

As you can see, quite a lot of visitors too!

Imagine caroling at minus 17C (-17C)... brrrrrr...
You have my admiration. 

Like most Catholic churches, there is a nativity set.

And what is interesting, is that situated below the cathedral complex is an underground mini shopping cum cafe store... Interesting!

In order to get to the Cathedral, and back, it was quite an ordeal. While yours truly researched and noted that there would be quite a lot of people, unfortunately, it's more like everybody is there... out on the streets.
Certainly not for claustrophobic and crowd hating kind of people if you are one of them...

The End.