The Journey Begins

So the journey has begun. I have departed the beloved homeland, and begun the voyage first to the spiritual heartland and then onwards to the fabled motherland.

And now having begun with so flowery an introduction I have to confess that the flight to Seoul was utterly dull. The highlights were undoubtedly the company of Bill Bryson’s comic genius (thanks David), the in-flight magazine’s article on the artistic merits of “Important Intangible Cultural Property #102” and being offered “scrub turkey” for lunch (I’m sure that’s what she said). At any rate I touched down in Seoul bored and numb from travel and was very efficiently rounded up and out of the airport with all the other ‘hotel transferers’.

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