Day 1 at Seoul!

Today's our first day visiting Seoul!
The weather was perfect and not too cold. Great for sightseeing as tourists =D

Here are the main highlights:

1. Eating breakfast at Twosome cafe.

Apparently there aren't any Korean food breakfast joints around Ambassador hotel. So we took a 5 minute walk left of the hotel to CJ building. We were greeted with twosome cafe (I know it's a strange name right) and we decided to have brekkie there! Twosome's kinda like Starbucks but a Korean version. We had simple sandwiches and bagel and got some bread from the nice bakery beside.

2. Visiting Namsan Park and N Seoul tower.

This was the best part of the day. Why? Because we saw amazing Sakura trees in bloom! It was my first time seeing Sakura and it was an amazing, surreal experience. Imagine our delight when the breeze was scattering the beautiful Sakura petals all around us. It was unbelievable!

At the N Seoul tower, we saw the famous area where couples hang locks to wish for everlasting love. So sweet eh! Too bad Gerald wasn't with me! Reminds me of how we used to hang our wishes in the shrines of Japan. We also had a bird's eye view of Seoul city, though it was slightly foggy. Ended our Namsan visiting by taking the cable car (this was a really big one mind you) down.

3. Eating and shopping at Myeongdong.

We walked from the base of Namsan to Myeongdong since it was pretty near. I must say Myeongdong is sooo happening and entertaining. So many shops, eateries and peeeopple. It was crowded since it was a Saturday.

We ate and shopped so much there! For food, we ate at two famous places for lunch + dinner: Yoogane Dakgalbi for lunch and Myeongdong Koja for dinner. Thumbs up for the two places! So glad I did some research on what to eat.

For street food, we satisfied our cravings for fishcake, sausage with bread and crispy fish. We also had some nice Bingsu (ice shavings dessert) at this nice cafe called Green Station.

There were so many cosmetics shops around that we were spoilt for choice. We bought our best picks (thanks to earlier online googling) from Tony Moly, Innisfree and Missha and left the rest for the remaining trip.

And I had some really good clothing buys at a few small shops at Myeongdong. The clothes were all so affordable! I was honestly surprised. Most of my pieces were feminine and sweet ones which I really adore =D

Can't wait to see more tomorrow!