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South Korea: Traditional Bullfighting Without The Blood

South Korea: Traditional Bullfighting Without The Blood

Bullfighting South Korean Style We travelled to Jinju with the main intention of visiting the Korean Festival of Lanterns, which was an ‘enlightening’ experience. We hadn’t realised that this festival coincided with so many other free events taking place around the city. The National Bullfighting competition takes place annually, in October, during the Jinju ‘Yudueng’. […]

Posted in: South Korea
South Korea: Jinju Festival of Floating Lamps (Yudeung)

South Korea: Jinju Festival of Floating Lamps (Yudeung)

How to get to Jinju We departed Jeju on the morning of Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving day) and as we were checking out of our room only hotel, were asked to take a seat in the manager’s office, who proudly presented us with a massive plate of cakes each. Neither of us are really breakfast people, […]

Posted in: South Korea
Malaysia: Our Return Journey to Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia: Our Return Journey to Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is changing rapidly.  Or is it us? This isn’t the first time we’ve visited Kuala Lumpur. We last spent some time here in December 2009. I don’t know whether its KL or us that has changed, but one thing that is definitely different is our budget.  If you want you can read about […]

Posted in: Peninsula
Art Deco to Travel for

Art Deco to Travel for

 Art Deco Architecture – New Zealand Style! No trip to New Zealand North Island would be complete for us without a visit to Napier and The Hastings. Napier is world renowned for its art deco architecture, but we visited Hastings first, which also has some great examples of this style of buildings. Getting to Napier […]

Posted in: North Island
Our Wellington ‘Waitangi Weekend’ Welcome

Our Wellington ‘Waitangi Weekend’ Welcome

Kia Ora, and what a welcome we received from Wellington, after our ferry crossing from Picton to the North Island of New Zealand. We’re really behind with our travel blog updates, so this is going to be a very quick entry covering quite a few days. The main reason is we’ve both been really busy. […]

Posted in: North Island