Author: Brynn
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Day 3: Taking Beijing By Bicycle
Today Jacob and I rented bicycles to tour around Beijing, and tour around we did. I’m fairly certain we covered almost the entire city today by bike. We started at our hostel in the Yong he Gong district and traveled west across the city to Houhai. Houhai is the old…
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Day 2: Squares, Scams and Security
We ended up taking it pretty easy yesterday and just hung around the area close to our hotel. We’re staying at the Candy Inn/1Hai Inn in the Yonghegong district. So far it’s great: the rooms are clean, the beds are comfortable there’s a nice atmosphere, it’s not too loud and…
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It’s All Chinese to Me
Just a quick update to let everyone know we arrived. We are both quite tired after a full night and morning of traveling but are so far loving China. It’s very quiet and beautiful, well the part we’ve seen anyway. We spent the afternoon wandering around a temple and are…
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Lessons Learned
I’ve been trying to keep track of the different lessons I’ve learned while being here. Language has the ability to both make you feel totally at home and completely alone. There’s nothing better than saying hello to friends or family and nothing worse than saying goodbye. Charades is more than…
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Where in the World are Brynn and Jacob?
Our time in Korea is very quickly drawing to a close and next week Jacob and I set out on what will definitely be one of the highlights of our lives. We are going to be spending the next 4 months traveling through China, South-East Asia, India and Australia. We’ve…
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The English Speaking Korean
Every once in a while you’ll stumble across the rare gem that is the English Speaking Korean (ESK). Fortunately to keep things interesting there are a few kinds of ESKs. “The soju gives me confidence ESK”. This will happen almost every time we go out to a bar or restaurant…
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Couple’s Wear
A very popular fashion trend in Korea is ‘couple’s wear’. You’ll see it in most stores where clothing will come in both a man’s and women’s version. This is particularly popular at the airport for honeymooners, at the movie theatre for dates and in shopping areas on the weekend. It’s…
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Fan Death
It’s been hot for the past month or two in Korea. And I mean REALLY hot. It’s never below about 29-30 degrees in our apartment and that’s with the air conditioner running. It easily gets to 35+ humidity everyday and would rarely drop below 30 even at night. This has…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 