This time I flew by Asiana Airlines, Korea-based you know. Which meant that I stopped over at Seoul, in winter-time, which also meant that Seoul was beautiful! Absolutely gorgeous, snow-clad and totally Korean. The snow-clad beauty also meant that it was freezing cold, –7ºC cold (highest 1 and lowest –14). Which is why when I walked out of the comfortably warm airport completely not expecting it, I was like "Oh, aaah…" and then ran coughing towards the hotel shuttle which was again comfortably warm inside.

Yep, they gave me a hotel… in downtown Seoul. The "Seoul Royal" was amazing. My room even had a toilet with one of those electronically controlled toilet seats which are pre-warmed at a specified temperature (low, medium, or high) and they have a built-in bidet which is really awesome. Also, free very high speed internet in the room, both wired and wireless. Korea is awesome high-tech! And the lifts run so fast that they announce that they've arrived on your floor (the ding sound) when they're still displaying the previous floor on the LCD - yep, that fast.

Since I just happened to be in downtown Seoul, I just thought I'd roam about for a bit instead of taking a very highly desired nap. Not a bad decision, though since I was not dressed appropriately for negative seven degrees celsius, I came back after about ten or fifteen minutes having lost feeling in most of my extremities. I did take some cellphone pictures though. Three, in fact, and here they are:



I really wish I had my real camera though. Seoul is an amazingly beautiful city and these silly cellphone pictures do it no justice.

Anyway, Macworld tomorrow!

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