>> I wanted to begin to offload at least a few kilos of that excess baggage which came home with me by carrying on raving about Seoul. A few days of roaming around the city led me to beieve that pretty much every sweatshirt and t-shirt came emblazoned with American football lettering, a slogan or… Continue reading Word Play
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Seoulful
65 kg. I think that's some sort of personal best in returning luggage from a trip. I should have known that a combined voyage to Tokyo and Seoul would produce that sort of excess luggage damage. That said, whilst I am more than familiar with Tokyo's shopping delights, Seoul was an unknown quantity to me.… Continue reading Seoulful
Ghosts of Childhood's Past
You might have seen from my Instagram that Seoul has been treating me well. Too well. Stuffed full of kimchi (more varieties here than I ever imagined), fuelled by people's enthusiasm for fashion here and giddy with rando encounters with K-Pop stars, I've been more than a bit distracted. As Tokyo Fashion Week came to… Continue reading Ghosts of Childhood's Past
You've been Disco-ed
>> State the bleedin’ obvious why don’t you, Susie. Disco Nail? Why, it’s a veritable mecca for nail art enthusiasts. Except I’m slow and wasn’t in the know until this trip to Tokyo that Nagisa Kaneko aka “Nagi” and her Disco Nail salon in Shibuya take nail art to a whole new outer-stratospheric level, that I… Continue reading You've been Disco-ed