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Sittin’ in Seoul

• Posted February 14th, 2009
• by Chris
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Nes and I arrived in Seoul a few hours ago after almost 14 hours above the Pacific. Nes slept—I watched movies (Nick & Nora’s Infi­nite Playlist, Vicki Christina Barcelona, Eagle Eye) and this week’s LOST episode.

Nes vs. laptopzilla

Not much to do for the next sev­eral hours, but the air­port has free wire­less and lap­top sta­tions with the biggest damn lap­tops I’ve ever seen in my life (yes, that’s a full 10-key pad).

The air­port here offers an inter­est­ing set of “tran­sit tours” for trav­el­ers with extended lay­overs. The tours are nicely pack­aged into hour-long incre­ments, so instead of sit­ting in the air­port, you can get out into the city and explore Seoul’s pop­u­lar neigh­bor­hoods and land­marks. We had really wanted to do the 5-hour tour, but by the time we located the tour desk, it was too late. Maybe next time.

Just another two hours here and then it’s a seven hour flight to Jakarta. From Jakarta, we’ll share the road with the thou­sands of Jakar­tans mak­ing their way to our final des­ti­na­tion: the Paris of Java, Ban­dung.

Ban­dung priorities

1. Shower
2. Seek out the near­est bowl of Bakso Malang
3. Sleep