Arrived at 6pm and left the next day about 2pm. In between I was able to grab a ride to an old Korean temple and sleep in a comfortable bed.

Life of the road consists of many ups and downs. Good food, bad food. A comfortable airline seat or a poor airline seat. I chose to travel ASIANA Airlines to the UK via Seoul. It was a last minute decision taken because I saw an incredible fare on lastminute.com.au. $1,340 is cheap in any bodies language to fly economy return Sydney to London but when you consider it also included a paid overnight in Seoul (breakfast, dinner and transfers included) plus ASIANA was voted Airline of the year 2009, then I guess, especially if you are a cynic like me, you start wondering what-gives.

I don’t want this sounding like and advertisement for Asiana but mate—so far they’ve been great. And by that I mean, great service, good food and lots of legroom. If you don’t like Korean food, very basic entertainment and slightly longer travel time to the UK (a minimum of + 2-3 hrs) then Asiana ain’t for you. And if you don’t like being offered a free re-hydration face pack carefully applied by the delicate hands of a gorgeous Korean flight attendant, then I’d also say give it a miss. I may have arrived an hour or two later than you, but I’d had a peak at Korea, tasted some delicious food and my craggy old face was soft as a babies bottom.

Sorry for the quality of the photo. Not only did the subject move but the shot was taken on my old Treo mobile