We spent the whole day happily doing water sports, but once we got back to the room the tiredness hit. So we decided to keep dinner simple and go with room service. Along with some perfectly ripe mango, of cou…
On the third day too we had a nice breakfast, stuffed ourselves with waffles and mango, and then headed to White Beach for the water sports included in our package. The place where you actually board the boat …
After a fun afternoon at the pool we headed to a bar called solana for dinner. Before the Boracay trip I had checked the Shangri-La resort website, and the bar looked so good in the photos that I simply had to…
After playing hard in the pool for a while, we came back to our beach chairs for a break. Since this was the resort’s poolside, we could order drinks and food right there from a beach bar called ALON. V…
The first day was entirely eaten up by getting there, but for day two we decided to keep the whole day free. White Beach, which we had checked out the day before, did not really grab me, so I settled on stayin…
White Beach, with its beautiful fine-grained sand, has to be the main and just about the only tourist spot on Boracay. The beach is really long so it’s split into sections, and D’Mall sits roughly …
We finally made it to the hotel. Maybe it was because we had been on the move since dawn (we were at the airport around 6 a.m.), but I was worn out. We finished checking in at the lobby, went up to the room fo…
I had a busy schedule through midsummer and I’m not the type who enjoys crowds, so I decided to get my trip out of the way before the real summer holiday season arrived. The original plan was to use my K…
Chef Yoo, who used to work at 2chef in Hongdae, has gone independent and opened his own restaurant in Pangyo. He is one of the few chefs I am close to, so I went along not long after he opened. And that was al…
Somehow I keep ending up having lunch around Yeoksam Station. On this day I went to my favourite Naju gomtang place from Hannam-dong. Spicy gomtang I don’t really eat spicy food, so I have no idea wha…
I got hold of a meal coupon for La Cucina, the Italian restaurant in Itaewon, so I headed straight over. This is a place you could say rewrote the history of Italian food in Korea. These days, with upscale res…
The place we went for a last dinner together with my Japanese friends was Miro Sikdang, a tasty Korean gastropub in Hongdae. They don’t take reservations, so we set out early, and maybe we were lucky – a…