London Booked

Well it's official. Emirate Airlines leaving at 11:50pm on Thursday October 4th from Incheon and arriving in London at 12:15 local time on Friday October 5th is booked. I have a three hour stopover in Dubai making it 20 hours to London and 18 hours back, which I will do on October 19th when I fly back (arriving in Seoul on Oct. 20th). I had thought about a night or two stopping over in Dubai but apparently Canada and the UAE are having a spat over landing rights in Canada for U.A.E based airlines and so visas for Canadians to the UAE have become prohibitively expensive (I guess Emirates and Ethiad airlines don't meet the lofty standards set by Air Canada......). Anyway that means no stopover adventures like the ones I used to do in Hong Kong and a big, long trip to London.

However, what I do get is two weeks in the U.K. I'll probably stick mostly to southern England as I'm there as much to visit my sister, who works in London for a casting company, as I am to go sightsee. Also, the U.K is famous for being more than a little expensive and when my sister told me the "cheap" option to travel was a forty pound a week subway pass I nearly fainted. I think I've spent that this year on the Daegu metro. That being said I am more than a little excited to see London and the U.K and this will be continent number four (because apparently Australia is a continent). I have a rough idea of what I want to do and will also spend time just looking around and picking up a few things that are hard to get in Korea (deodorant, quality shoes) and just have a relaxing vacation.

Anyway, down to six days at work, Chuseok and an October in London.