So disappointed with myself ; took me 2 month to finish blogging of my 10 days trip to Korea. Today will be the day I complete blogging my 2013 Korea trip!
Day 9 & 10 will be post together as there was nothing much left on day 10 (we didn't go anywhere on day 10 ; coming back only). I will share my itinerary with all once I had done all the amendment to it
DAY 9 / 10 - 21 / 22 Sept 2013
Seoul - Ewha Women University / Hongdae / Paris Baguette cafe
Today plans was super relaxed of all, as it was already the second last day in Korea, I just want to enjoy as much as possible. So we can sleep in a bit later than past few days.
Seoul - Ewha Women University (이화여자대학교)
The Ewha women University area is one of the most popular shopping districts in Seoul. Clothing stores in the area sell affordable and stylish fashions for your people. Restaurants in the area cater to the tastes of your women, and many international dining chains have branches there. As well as the main street leading to the school, many of the alleyways are worth visiting. There are filled with accessory shops, small clothing boutiques and many more other stores!
Address -
11-1, Daehyeon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul-si
서울 서대문구 대현동 11-1
How to go - 5 mins walk from exits # 2 & 3 of Ewha Womans University Station (Subway Line 2)
This is my favourite shopping place of all !!! The last time I was here, I spent at least 3 hours non-stop shopping here. But this time, I had done alot of shopping at other area, and there is a possibility that I might come back soon, so I have to stop myself !
Noticed that there were more tourist than local. Maybe local were still on their holiday period where they all went back to their hometown. With that, not many people were on the street. We were able to slowly and take our time to look at all the shops.
Actually we thought of walking over to Sinchon but we got lost and we had been turning round and round in Ewha's alleyways. In the end, we gave up trying to find out where were we and how to go Sinchon. We just see thing where our legs bought us too, then train to Hongdae after that.
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| Ewha Women University shopping street |
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| Ewha Women University |
Seoul - Hongdae (Hongik University Street) (홍대)
A area which is located in front of Hongik University. It's a neighbourhood known for its youthful and romantic ambience, underground cultures, and freedom of self-expression. Unique cafes, cozy galleries, accessory stores, fashion shops, live cafes and clubs, art markets, and gourmet eateries make this a popular hang-out for locals in their 20-30 and a fascinating place to walk around
[cut and paste from -
http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=1326972 ]
Address -
Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul-si
서울 마포구 서교동 일대
How to go - Hongik University Station (Seoul Subway Line 2 or Airport Railroad)
Actually after Ewha, did too much shopping and we were too lazy to walk any more, we just went to a cafe,sat down & rest and looking about the crowds walking around. Hongdae are better of at night; because of the club and bar. Personally I don't like bar & clubs, so is all right for me to skip this place (and I had been here before!)
After a long rest, we decided to head back to Insadong instead as there were some things that we missed out the last time we were there. The place were still full of people [like always], but this time we knew what we want to buy, so didn't take much time.
Didn't do much today but very tired, maybe because of the thought we were heading back home soon and too much shopping for the past few days. So we decided to just head back after dinner. Went into a ransom shop and sat down, thought of the cheese pork cutlet that I saw on the first night (There was this small boy next to us were having cheese pork cutlet which the cheese was like taking pizza.). Ordered a pork cutlet set , thinking it would be the same, but wasn't (there was not much cheese)
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| Dinner - Cheese Pork cutlet rice |
After dinner, we headed back to start packing. Have to pack 10 days of shopping and dirty clothes into the luggage and with our room so small, is going to be a hard work and long night. [luckily tomorrow morning, I didn't planned to go anywhere.]
Today is the day that we are going back to Singapore. We choose not to eat hotel breakfast but to walk out and have Paris Baguette for breakfast (actually the bread that we had for breakfast every morning were from Paris Baguette too !)
Paris Baguette [ 파리바게뜨 ]
It is a division of SPC group, an international food and food services company based in Korea. It ranks as the top brand - based on brand recognition and brand power - in the highly competitive Korean bakery market. Paris Baguette presently supplies fresh bakery products to customer through 2,900 stores in Korea, 50 stores in China & 22 stores in US.
(It's everywhere of Korea, confirm see it; even Incheon airport itself, they have at least 4-5 stores )
website -
http://www.paris.co.kr/main/
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| Paris Baguette cafe |
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| part of bread choices |
There were so many choices of bread for us to choose from, all looked so nice that we don't know which to choose.
And they even state down the calorie down on the tag, letting you know the bread that you choose, how much calorie are there. [so good for girls that we on diet!]
We wanted to sit there to eat but it was full of people so we takeout and have a walk. We took a walk to Sejong Hotel ( where the Airport Limousine bus to Incheon Airport is )
to see how far is it from our hostel to Sejong Hotel as later we will have to pull our luggage over.
Is not very far but the floor is totally unstable, thinking that it might take a longer than than it seem. It will be better if we left earlier.
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| Name tag of the bread [they even have the calorie stated !!] |
We pulled our luggage to Sejong Hotel (which was 2 street away ) to take the Airport Limousine 6001 or 6015 to Incheon Airport. The bus ride was about an hour long, I just looked out and enjoy the last bit of Seoul before heading back to Singapore.
Before we headed the SQ counter to do check in, we went to weight our luggage first. As we were able to check in 20kg only, we have to make sure our luggage are not over weight or else the extra fee are not cheap. And we were so right, both our luggage were over weight, and that we had to open up and repack !!
We looked for thing to eat after we had settle our luggage and finished with checking in. But because we are had a few bags with us (the extra thing that we took out from our luggage so it can get check in), is pretty hard for us to walk away if we don't have the trolley; took us very long to decide where to go for lunch. Since is our last meal in Korea, we decide to have some Korean food; I ordered Seafood noodle
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| Lunch - Seafood noodle |
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| still have to take skytrain to our gate !! |
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| plane that bringing us back to Singapore |
We followed the signs to our gate, we had to take skytrain to head to our gate. Luckily we had enough time or else we have to run like crazy !
There was a slight delay on the boarding of the flight. We just sat there and surf the web (airport has free Wi-Fi !) . After 15 min later, we are finally able to board the plane.
Onflight TV at my seat, was unable to use. I tried to ask the staff to come and take a look, but they were busy serving so I gave up and watch my IPad. Is only after the onflight meal was serving, is working again !
Thought there won't be any problem left, in the end even luggage was delayed. Was thankful it was delay for 10 min only, by the time I reach home and settle down was almost 1am! Have to force myself to sleep as tomorrow have to go back to work
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| Dinner on the flight with "Running man" [tonight's meal is better than the meal I had when I went ] |
