Flowers take 3: Yeoido

Cherry blossom. That is probably the most beautiful view in Korea during spring. We finally came to see it in Yeoido during a flower festival.


Jon exited on a bicycle.

Brita even more exited walking.

Everyone had their cameras and took so many pictures.

The place was full of people, everyone taking pictures and posing with the flowers. Koreans love to pose!

Our lovely Finns.

Me and a Russian pose.

Jon and a Korean pose.

Kate and a Japanese pose.


Cherry blossom.

And then we saw a mirror.

On the street there were all kinds things to see. Music performances, magic performances, and then this cutest little animal! I don't know what it was and for what reason there was a man letting people hold it and pet it... but it was soo cute >.< Girls with a cute pose!

More flowers...

This was just rediculous! Koreans have such a twisted relationship with dogs. They eiter eat them or treat them like some royalties. She had a pram for her dog that matched with the dog's died ears!

After admiring the flowers we went to a park for an evening picnic.

We had chicken sticks.

And beer.

And: we made a pyramid! :)

Here in Seoul it might be really warm in the day but it gets chilly soon after the sun sets. We were getting cold sitting outside so we headed to Sinchon.

We went to a place called Mike's cabin. It was a nice place, you could do both sit down and dance, and the music was good :) After a while listening to only Korean bubble gum pop songs you get tired of them and crave for something else...

That was a bit too western place though. Since we're in Korea, we don't want to go to the places just full of westerners...

It was really nice that you could also play board games there! We played "moving labyrinth", "guess who" and of course "monopoly" :)

After a while people started to get into the party mood...

...and let loose. Just like Antti here :)

Ahh, cherry blossom!

Flowers take 2: Naksan

Suddenly the temperature jumped 10 degrees. When a week earlier we were freezing with only 10 degrees outside now there was over 20 and total summer for us! We went to Naksan to play badminton.

Kate working it.

We climbed to the top of the hill and saw the great view.

This is one of my favourite pictures!

The sky was so gloomy because the relatively high levels of yellow sand, which blows from Gobi desert in the dry springtime.

There is a wall running through northern parts of Seoul, and on Naksan. We climbed onto the wall to hang out since that was the only place to sit. All the ground exept for the path was sloping.

We noticed that behind the wall, that is: further from the center, the area looked pretty shaggy.

We stayed until the sun had set.

Flowers take 1: Yeoido

The club in our university taking care exchange students took us to an island called Yeoido in Hangang to see the cherry blossom. We came there only to realize that we were just a bit too early, the trees weren't blossoming yet. We then just hung out there really doing nothing...

Our tutors.

A park in Yeoido which is and island with many fancy office buildings and the National Assembly.

Raita and Mari chilling.

Raita and Gregor taking it easy.

Flowers.

Me and Raita we were playing around...

...and letting our inner wild horses free. :)