It Happens Only In Korea... Part III

Walking back home after work today, I passed by this promotional sign outside a spa...

The sign made me wonder if the "spa was 50% open"?

What a gem!

Grizzlies, Go Away, The Salmon Is Mine...

 Something that we have come to absolutely love in Korea is the abundant availability of salmon which fairly reasonably priced compared to back home in Mumbai...

On my way back from office last night, I picked up a few groceries and noticed some smoked salmon...

Yay, the weekend is coming - how about having a salmon-mustard croissant for breakfast - that's the thought that ran in my mind...

That's what we are having this morning - all the salmon is mine, grizzlies go away!

All For A Delectable 2017...

A New Year dawns on us with us raising a toast to all things healthy, yummy and delectable in 2017...

For both of us, if there's anything we can't live without, it's eggs, there's so much you can do with them. Today proved just that - the New Year morning started for us with a stuffed tuna omelette flavoured with loads of spices and herbs...

We opted for an early dinner and headed to a neighbourhood family-owned Italian eatery, La Compagna to formally treat ourselves for a great 2017!

Toasting with a limonata...

Bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar...

Followed by a fresh salad with almonds, Korean style!

Penne arabiatta - it's not on the menu but the lovely lady always makes it for us...

That's why I am always kicked about small, family, hole in the wall kind of establishments...

Our mushroom pizza...

2017 began on a tasty note... let's see what the year has in store for us!

It's Officially Winter...

It's been a week now and the hangover of the South Pacific trip wasn't quite over till early this morning, when it snowed like crazy and we had to wake up to icy realities of our existence in Korea...

The blue skies indeed look enticingly deceptive...

And what begins now is a freezing quarter of snow and winds that will chill you to the bone, a contrast to the warmth of the South Pacific...

Today, we have to frantically fish out our earmuffs, caps and gloves, bracing for the freezing days that lie ahead of us!

Plane Spotting At GMP

We are on the road again, heading for Jeju island this time. A short one hour hop down the Korean peninsula on board Eastarjet's Boeing 737 will get us to Jeju. And with a flight delay of 30 minutes, I have quite a lot of time for Plane Spotting - I am definitely not complaining...

Our flight will take us from Seoul's Gimpo International Airport to Jeju today. Gimpo was built during the early 1940s during Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula and became South Korea's premier airport until Incheon International Airport was opened up in 2001. But instead of shutting Gimpo down, it was retained as a domestic and regional airport while Incheon was positioned as a global transit hub...

Jin Air Boeing 737...

A Korean Air Boeing 737 taxis towards the runway...

A Jin Air Boeing 777 on its takeoff run...

T'way Boeing 737...

Air Busan Airbus A320...

The silver bullet...

Korean Air Boeing 737 in the silver Sky Team livery...

The marshaller orchestrates our pushback...

The Asiana end of the ramp...

The queen - Korean Air Boeing 747-400 taxis...

She looks so pretty...

Jin Air Boeing on 32R-14L for its takeoff run...

Lining up on the runway...

And we are followed by a Korean Air Boeing 737. See you soon Gimpo...

Plane Spotting At ICN ... Part 8

And as our Peach Airbus A320 taxis towards the concourse at Incheon International Airport, I got my change to do some more Plane Spotting!

The land of blue - capturing Incheon without the blue of Korean Air, well, is virtually impossible!

A Korean Air Boeing 777 is being towed...

Two Garuda Indonesia Airbus A330s, a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777, Jin Air Boeing 737, a British Airways Boeing 787 Dream)liner, Cathay Pacific Boeing 777, a Delta Airbus A330 and a Finnair Airbus A330...

And some more beauties...

The Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777 looks stunning, but the Air Asia X Airbus A330 pales in comparison...

Thai Airbus A330 and an Alitalia Airbus A330...

A Lao Air Airbus A320...

The exotic find of the day - Air Astana Boeing 767 from Khazakstan...

An Air France Boeing 777 comes in from CDG, Paris...

Almost at our gate, next to the resplendent bird from Suwarnabhumi, Bangkok...