Travel Vlog
Today was Christina’s last day before flying back home and we decided to rent hanboks and visit Gyeongbokgung (경복궁) for her last day. Opting for a taxi ride this time, we headed to the hanbok rental place near Gyeongbokgung Station before spending our afternoon at the palace walking around and taking pictures.
Travel Vlog
Spent our day shopping and cafe hopping at Garosugil, joined by Daviddepe. We visited Village 11 Factory, Villa Soohyang, Milstone coffee, and Skinfood Cafe. In the evening, we headed to Hongdae for samgyeopsal dinner and more shopping. We wrapped up the day at the game arcade before we head home.
Read the travelogue and see more photos from the day here.
Seoul Spring '17 - Travel Vlog - Ep. 04 - Went to a workshop with Christina and then for an afternoon coffee at Cafe Mula in Garosugil. Ended the day with a funny incident where one of us got separated from the group.
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Went to a workshop with Christina and then for an afternoon coffee at Cafe Mula in Garosugil. Ended the day with a funny incident where one of us got separated from the group.
Seoul Spring '17 - Travel Vlog - Ep. 03 - Third day of the trip, we went cafe hopping in Seoul. From Mr. Holmes in Garosu-gil to Daerim Chango in Seongsu. We also went to Common Ground and accidentally met a couple of celebrities when we were passing by an event that just finished.
Travel Vlog: Third day of the trip, we went cafe hopping in Seoul. From Mr. Holmes Bakehouse in Garosu-gil to Daelim Changgo in Seongsu. We also went to Common Ground and accidentally met a couple of celebrities when we were passing by an event that just finished.
After we finished exploring Common Ground (see the story here), we started to make our way to the next cafe we wanted to check out. And this was when an unexpected happy coincidence of meeting a couple of Korean celebrities happened. So we were walking to our next destination when suddenly we saw a bunch of people exiting a storage-like building that we just happened to be passing by. Since there were a lot of young and well-dressed people coming out from the building, we were curious on what’s going on and whether there was some kind of an event that just ended. So, we decided to just stand there and watch the people for a bit.
Soon enough, suddenly there was this woman and a group of people around her who was walking out in quite a rush. At first, we couldn’t make out her face since she’s still a bit far, but by looking at her entourage, we’re pretty sure she’s somebody famous. We just weren’t sure who she was. And then when the group was closer to us, we immediately recognized the woman. Turned out it was Choi Soo Young from Girls’ Generation! My camera hasn’t started recording when she was facing us, so I only caught a glimpse of her back when she turned for the alley. But we’re sure it was her. She’s pretty tall and her face is kinda hard to forget. And then minutes later, Minzy, former member of 2NE1, also walked out with her mom and her entourage. The girls were excited because they didn’t expect to see anybody famous on the street of Seoul, but there we were, just happened to saw two Korean celebrities who we recognized. It was definitely one of the exciting moment from the trip.
After we all came down from the excitement from minutes before, we finally arrived at our next destination, Daelim Changgo (click to read more about the place). The place was a bit busy, but there were still empty chairs to choose from since they have a very spacious seating area. We spent our afternoon there before heading back to Hongdae to get some dinner.
Seoul Spring '17 - Travel Vlog - Ep. 02.2 - We also stopped by Dongdaemun Design Plaza to check out Seoul Fashion Week that was going on and went for multiple snack runs at convenient stores. For more from the day, watch part one of the vlog.
Travel Vlog
After we’re done with the wedding shoe shopping (see part 1 here), we headed to Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) to check out Seoul Fashion Week that was going on (see more pictures and read the story here). We spent a good amount of time people watching before moving on to Dosan Tower, more well known as Doota (두산타워), one of the largest fashion malls at Dongdaemun market because Grace and Marshellia wanted to browse around and maybe do some shopping. By the time they finished browsing, the sun already set and we started to make our way to the subway station to head to our dinner plan.
But of course when the two spotted a street vendor near the subway entrance that sells a variety of street food, they had to make a stop and bought some. I guess the walking around we did the past couple of hours have burned all the food that we ate earlier because they said they were hungry enough to eat that and dinner later on.
Christina joined us again for dinner with Soo Zee and Leigh (see more pictures and read the story here). And after dinner was done, we stopped by the convenient store to buy some water and other things before going back to our Airbnb and calling it a day.
