Back from my short trip with J. Wish I could have spent longer there and explored more, but J had to fly off to California and I had to come back to pack for my long trip to Uganda. The trip to Seoul was more to spend time together I guess, after months of brief, occasional dates 'cause he had to prepare for his final examinations.
The trip was really timely though, because it was flower season and Seoul was in bloom! So so glad we managed to catch the cherry blossoms. Before the trip I kept lamenting how it was such a pity I couldn't catch the cherry blossoms in Japan this year and how we'd miss the flower festivals in Korea as well 'cause they would only start after we had left. But after we arrived I checked again and realised that one of Seoul's flower festivals had been brought forward! Due to weather changes the cherry blossoms were blooming earlier, so the festival was to start 10 days earlier. What luck! And outside of the flower festival trees along the streets were randomly blooming too, making the city so much more beautiful.
The trip was really timely though, because it was flower season and Seoul was in bloom! So so glad we managed to catch the cherry blossoms. Before the trip I kept lamenting how it was such a pity I couldn't catch the cherry blossoms in Japan this year and how we'd miss the flower festivals in Korea as well 'cause they would only start after we had left. But after we arrived I checked again and realised that one of Seoul's flower festivals had been brought forward! Due to weather changes the cherry blossoms were blooming earlier, so the festival was to start 10 days earlier. What luck! And outside of the flower festival trees along the streets were randomly blooming too, making the city so much more beautiful.
From hereon it shall just be a photo spam of the many flowers I saw throughout the trip. This is basically a flowers appreciation post. I'll blog about what we did in upcoming posts~
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| Namsan Park |
Namsan Park had quite a lot flowers in bloom when we strolled through on the first evening we arrived, although I don't think it was in full bloom yet.
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| Flowering trees by the roadside |
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| Quaint little flower shops everywhere |
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| Gyeongbokgung |
This was at Seoul Plaza, outside City Hall. There was some kind of fair being held and these gorgeous flowers had been planted by the roadside along with many many other varieties and they all had their Korean names labelled on cute little chalkboard tags. Almost everyone who walked by slowed their footsteps to admire the flowers or stopped to take some photos. Flowers have this kind of magic.
And so we went to attend the Yeouido Spring Flower Festival, which had been brought forward 10 days. One stretch of road had been closed off for the festival and there were tons of people strolling about even though it was a weekday. Beautiful trees lined the roadside and the blossoms just went on and on, as far as the eye could see and then some ♥︎_♥︎
There were street performances, stalls selling cup noodles with makeshift tables by the road, mascots milling around...and tons of people taking pictures. Many couples brought along tripods that could hold their smartphones so they could take perfect timed shots of themselves. Enterprising people came early to find good photo spots and promptly set up photo booths with small portable printers printing the photos on the spot and they seemed to be doing jolly good business. Meanwhile J and I were trying rather unsuccessfully to take selfies with the flowers.
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| Said unsuccessful selfie |
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| Trees on either side of the pavement creating a perfect shade from the sun |
There's just something about flowers that instantly lifts the mood (:
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