Morning Calm, Evening Hectic.
Korean life, Parenting October 26th. 2009, 11:27pm
We went to an incredible garden this morning. According to my well traveled father, who does gardening and landscape work professionally, he ranked it in the top 10 in the entire world. He was comparing it to gardens that were centuries old that he had visited and was talking about it favorably. He was astounded to learn it was only a 15 year old garden. I’ll post more pictures later. This place was absolutely breathtaking, and I can’t WAIT to visit it again with friends. Why this place isn’t more heavily promoted in foreigner circles is a complete mystery.
It’s rewritten everything about “must see” in Korea in my book.
I’ll go out of my way to take people here if I can.
Then we took a bus to Seoul. We traveled around Seoul, and when we got to tourist heavy Insadong I left the family with my wife. I headed back to Daejeon to teach my classes that started today. I had to get there and plan my classes while my wife got my family back to town safely. I arrived with just enough time to spare. I taught my two new classes and did a pretty good job considering the time I had to prepare and the fatigue of traveling around Korean just to get to the class.
While running back from Seoul was frantic and made me stressed, it was worth it to see this with my parents. I think they’ll be talking about this trip with lots of praise for our choice, and it will be memorable for reasons different than last time we took them around.
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October 27th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Gorgeous – just the sort of place that looks fun to check out. Why people haven’t found it before? It’s a little out of the way, maybe? And not in the Lonely Planet, LOL.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Exactly! That’s why we didn’t know about it. My wife turned it up in a search for day trips for foreigners.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
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