Author: Matthias Chan
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UWC Day 119 – Tokushima, Japan – Day Around Town and Puppet Theatre
Lovely Sunday exploring different sides of Tokushima including church, river cruise and traditional puppet theatre. Just a really nice relaxing and refreshing day! Photo Gallery: https://pics.mattichan.com/-uwc119 Church Started the morning at church with Marty meeting his new community. Really nice to be able to be at a service even with limited understanding of what they…
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UWC Day 118 – Tokushima, Japan – Traveling to Japan for a Side Trip
Long day of travel, but made it safely to Tokushima and met up with my friend Marty to see this city and a little slice of Japan away from all the hustle and bustle of the big cities. Photo Gallery: https://pics.mattichan.com/-uwc118 Incheon Airport Headed bright and early through the park to thr airport. Thankfully, it…
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UWC Day 117 – Seoul, South Korea – A Beautiful Day on Nami Island
Got out of the city as quickly as possible and headed to Nami Island for a great time wandering through a nice tiny little slice of paradise. Set of a K-Drama called Winters Sonata. Ran out of time to go to the Garden of Morning Cwlm, but a beautiful day nonetheless. Ended day in Seoul…
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UWC Day 116 – Jeju Island, South Korea – A Disappointing Day and Tour
Disappointing day with a bait and switch, but got to see a little bit of Jeju Island. Photo Gallery: https://pics.mattichan.com/-uwc116 Tour We were going to go hiking and go up Hallasan to see some views and get out of the crowds a bit. When we got off the ship, our guide did a little bait…
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UWC Day 115 – Busan, South Korea – A Most Lovely Cherry Blossom Tour
Booked a spontaneous Cherry Blossom Tour, and even with the rain, had a lovely time in a couple scenic spots. As much as I hate bus tours, this one was actually quite pleasant and lovely. Photo Gallery: https://pics.mattichan.com/-uwc115 Immigration and Getting Off the Ship Immigration Because I’m getting off in Seoul and skipping Beijing, I…
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UWC Day 114 – Cruising Day – Happy Nate’s Day
Cruising Day combined with Nate’s Birthday turned into a full day of celebrating Nate. If you do nothing else, go watch the video at the bottom of this page, which sums up the day pretty well. Organizing Got all my laundry back, and started to re-organize all the clothes. Also took all the starbucks mugs…
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UWC Day 113 – Okinawa, Japan – Walking Around Naha and Finding Joy in the Little Things
Fun (long) day walking around Okinawa and finding things that I enjoy. Turned into a pretty full day, and we say a ton of stuff as we wandered with no real plans (other than to find a stationary store). Photo Gallery: https://pics.mattichan.com/-uwc113 Heading into Town We set out off the ship after taking it easy…
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UWC Day 112 – Ishigaki, Japan – Japanese BBQ and Wandering Around Ishigaki City
Chill day wandering around Ishigaki with Nate with some delicious food and snacks. Photo Gallery: https://pics.mattichan.com/-uwc112 Facebook being Annoying Woke up to find that the post I had set to load overnight hadn’t finished, and in fact was marked as spam (for whatever reason). I hit the “dispute / review” button, and then about 15…
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UWC Day 111 – Taipei, Taiwan – Day Around the City
Great day wandering around Taipei with lots of food and catching up with friends and family. Photo Gallery: https://pics.mattichan.com/-uwc111 Heading to City Got off the ship in Keelung and took the train over to Taipei nice and early in the morning. Got off at Songshan station and had an hour to kill before getting to…
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UWC Day 110 – Cruising Day – Catching Up with Friends and Pics
Great day trying to catch up on posts and catching up with friends. Spent most of the day unpacking. Morning Slept in in the morning to catch up on some rest, and then spent a couple hours unpacking and getting stuff situated in my stateroom. Finally headed out around 2pm to do some editing on…
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