One night at the Han-River
A couple of days prior, my friend Corey invited me to go “camping”. At first we wanted to stay at an actual camping site, specifically Nanji – the spot where we used to have our annual South African Braai. However, to our disappointment, the camping site was fully booked, so we…
Peace Camp 2016 - Highlights
In my previous blog post, I promised to update my blog as often as possible… although due to limited wifi & free time, spending 40 minutes everyday writing an article was basically out of the question. The 2016 Peace Camp, hosted by the MPVA (Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs)…
On my way to Peace Camp
Not too long ago, I got invited to the annual Peace Camp in Korea. They are flying hundreds of descendants of Korean War Veterans from around the world in to Korea for the week. Easy for the organisers, South Africa (me) already lives here. I’m writing this blog post…
The other side of Gangnam
One of my German classmates in Korea posted a photo of him standing next to a shack on Instagram with no context. I initially thought the photo what taken somewhere along his travels through Africa, and coming from South Africa myself, I thought that's brave thing to do…
Hiking to Daecheongbong at Seoraksan National Park
Over a weekend in early November 2015 my friends, Ricardo, Stefan, Fabi, Carlos and I jumped on a bus to Sokcho and hiked up one of the biggest mountains in South Korea. I'm writing this almost 7 years later, but backdated to fit in with my other posts.…
Our trip to Timbavati
The week I've been looking forward to all holiday have finally arrived - To spend a week with my family and some family friends in the Timbavati Game Reserve. We decided up front, to spend 1 night in the Kruger National Park, at Lower Sabie to ease the…