[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":123},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish\u002Fgreat-trip-so-far":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":49,"extension":106,"meta":107,"navigation":118,"path":119,"seo":120,"stem":121,"__hash__":122},"content\u002F3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fgreat-trip-so-far.md","Having a great trip so far",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":98},"minimark",[9,14,18,21,25,28,34,37,41,44,64,67,70,74,77,80,91,95],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"korea-trip-without-a-plan-korea-trip-without-a-plan","Korea trip without a plan {#korea-trip-without-a-plan}",[15,16,17],"p",{},"I am almost one week into my 5 (!!) week holiday and so far I am having an absolute blast.\nSince I usually spend my time worrying about the future and trying to come up with plans\nto ward off potential crises, with this trip I have decided to change things up and go\noverseas with no plan and just let things happen naturally.",[15,19,20],{},"I was expecting that things would go terribly, or at least far worse than they have been going. In reality,\nwhile there has been some dead time, I have found that planning my time on the day has allowed\nme to stop worrying about everything in my life.",[10,22,24],{"id":23},"the-preparation-the-preparation","The preparation {#the-preparation}",[15,26,27],{},"The very first thing I do when I go to Korea is jump for joy at the thought of not having\nto use Sydney's Opal card for public transport. Unlike Opal, T-money cards actually\nwork properly and aren't held by idiots who think that bludgeoning a scanner with the card\nwill make the station gates open any more quickly.",[15,29,30],{},[31,32],"binding",{"value":33},"\u003C figure src=\"\u002Fimages\u002Ft-money.jpg\" >",[15,35,36],{},"It doesn't hurt that the designs on the T-money cards are absolutely boss!",[10,38,40],{"id":39},"seoul-the-legend-continues-seoul-the-legend-continues","Seoul - The Legend Continues {#seoul-the-legend-continues}",[15,42,43],{},"When I got to Seoul, I really had one main aim in mind. Well, actually more like three aims. I have\nthree close friends in Korea, and they all live near Seoul, so the main aim for my trip was to see\nthem and spend as much time with them as humanly possible. For the rest of the trip, I really just\nwanted to make sure that I enjoyed my time and didn't focus too much on trying to make efficient\nor special use of my time in Korea. I had met some people online and was looking forward to meeting\nsome of them in person, but I knew that it was important to not worry about things happening or not\nhappening. I just wanted to let life happen, and that's what I did.",[15,45,46,51,52,55,51,58,61],{},[47,48],"img",{"alt":49,"src":50},"","\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-1.jpg"," ",[47,53],{"alt":49,"src":54},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-2.jpg",[47,56],{"alt":49,"src":57},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-3.jpg",[47,59],{"alt":49,"src":60},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-4.jpg",[47,62],{"alt":49,"src":63},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-5.jpg",[15,65,66],{},"I had quite a lot of downtime in Seoul and went to probably every decent cafe in the city. When I wasn't\ndoing language study, I was spending time doing things like fixing up this blog and making it easy to add\nposts like this one. I felt a great sense of satisfaction from doing something on my computer that was\nto make my real life more fulfilling and enjoyable, so even in my downtime I felt like I was doing something\ngood for me.",[15,68,69],{},"I spent a good week or so in Seoul, and I met a few really nice people during my time here. I do not think\nthat I would spend so long here if I was travelling on my own next time as quite a lot of interesting Korean\ncuisine is best enjoyed in groups, and I hate drinking alone, but I still was really able to enjoy my time.\nNo regrets!",[10,71,73],{"id":72},"incheon-surprisingly-enjoyable-incheon-surprisingly-enjoyable","Incheon - Surprisingly Enjoyable {#incheon-surprisingly-enjoyable}",[15,75,76],{},"When I went to Incheon, I was expecting it to be like Seoul but more rubbish, but I actually really enjoyed\nmy time here. I found one really nice cafe here, and made a new friend that I hope to stay in touch with for\na long time, so it was a massive win to go to Incheon.",[15,78,79],{},"I went with my friend to Chinatown, and I have to say that Chinatown itself was very average to say the least,\nbut some of the shops there were so funny that I almost died of laughter. It was fun in its most pure form\nand it made me realise the value of having a friend with you to enjoy what would otherwise be a collection\nof buildings and streets.",[15,81,82,51,85,88],{},[47,83],{"alt":49,"src":84},"\u002Fimages\u002Fincheon-1.jpg",[47,86],{"alt":49,"src":87},"\u002Fimages\u002Fincheon-2.jpg",[47,89],{"alt":49,"src":90},"\u002Fimages\u002Fincheon-3.jpg",[10,92,94],{"id":93},"not-done-yet-not-done-yet","Not done yet {#not-done-yet}",[15,96,97],{},"At the time of writing this post, I actually have one leg left to go south of Seoul before I head off to Japan.\nI feel, though, at this point in the trip that I have done everything in Seoul and Incheon that I set out to do\nbefore I left Australia. It has been a wonderful week and a great way to completely blank my mind of all of the\nstress and anxiety that had built up before my holiday. I hope the next 4 weeks are just as theraputic as this\nfirst week of my holiday has been!",{"title":49,"searchDepth":99,"depth":99,"links":100},2,[101,102,103,104,105],{"id":12,"depth":99,"text":13},{"id":23,"depth":99,"text":24},{"id":39,"depth":99,"text":40},{"id":72,"depth":99,"text":73},{"id":93,"depth":99,"text":94},"md",{"author":108,"date":110,"lastmod":111,"tags":112,"categories":114,"type":116,"draft":117},[109],"Jarrod Moore","2018-04-01T23:43:00+10:00","2021-06-17T00:04:40+10:00",[113],"travel",[115],"english","post",false,true,"\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish\u002Fgreat-trip-so-far",{"title":5,"description":49},"3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fgreat-trip-so-far","aYJxzi3mqjiHn-XywKhP_SSfMUm_U_YDp1tAqyTGCrQ",1779660265154]