Tag: parks
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Dalseong Park – a sort of kind of zoo
On Sunday afternoon, I woke up at about half past 12 (midday). I hadn’t had a particularly late night but it’s sometimes luxuriously wonderful just to sleep in. I was lying in bed about half an hour later, reading, when I got a text from a friend. She was bored and wanted ideas of things…
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Rose-tinted glasses
A post with this title could so easily be a meandering consideration of how everything South African seems brighter and better and more magical through the nostalgia of being stuck, and yes I often feel stuck, half-a-world away. In fact, it isn’t. It’s a post about my newest acquisition – a pair of sunglasses.
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Autumn colours
All of this is still not enough, however, to detract from the glorious autumn colours that have finally set the city alight in a beautiful blush of reds and yellows and oranges. Yesterday, I went downtown to one of my favourite parks (Gukchae Bosang Park) to see the trees in their autumn glory.