I would travel long distances to cold places for this girl. Well, maybe not regularly, because… cold, but definitely to shoot her wedding. Lindsey and I go way back to days of long-ass commutes into Bangkok and generally being jerk teenagers. She sure has grown up well though! The wedding was beautiful, tons of fun, and fuels by these insane diner breakfast sandwiches in the cutest little town in New Jersey! I’m so honoured I was asked to be a part of it. I love you long time, Lingee!
People who say Singapore is boring aren’t trying hard enough. There’s SO many random and awesome things happening around us that you’ll never find unless you go out of your way and look for them. I had the pleasure of hanging out with these amazingly passionate guys from OnHand Agrarian the other day at their kelong offshore from Pasir Ris. When he’s not busy tending to his newly adopted shark babies, Shannon’s busy raising an urban farm at home and populating ponds with extinct local fish species. The company offers subscription monthly home seafood deliveries, without using one-time-use plastic for packaging. Fresh. Delicious. Sustainable. Still a little resentful I didn’t get any of those mussels.
I hate that we’re over fishing every fish/ocean dwelling creature stock in the sea. I also love hanging out at fish markets and fishing ports. I can’t reconcile this hypocrisy in my life. I spent basically a whole day in Jagalchi Market in Busan. The indoor market is kind of lame, but I really didn’t give it much chance because it was indoors and had horrible light dead fish deserve to be photographed in beautiful natural light. Luckily there’s a huge outdoor area around the indoor building and it’s fine to just wander around the port. Totally my kind of holiday.
It’s possible to buy fish and ask the stalls upstairs to cook it (or slice it raw), but it’s super over priced and not good. I did manage to get a very cheap breakfast at the outdoor stalls, which would have comfortable fed about 4 people for 10000krw (12sgd). It also wasn’t good. Such a shame to have access to all that amazing fresh seafood and not be able to properly enjoy it!
Hi Carli, congratulations! A perfect series!
I took the train to Busan last month. Spoiler Alert: no zombies.
I did find plenty of dead fish. I’ll save those for an entire post of their own. This one involves the charming hillside village of Gamcheon with pretty colourful houses, plenty of mediocre food, and Taejongdae, which I’m sure would be alright in nice weather. At least it was nice to have a few days to myself, explore somewhere new and take photos not for work. I actually think the zippy fast train to get there was my favorite part. I do promise to share all the dead fish in the next post though.
If anyone from Busan sees this post, PLEASE, enlighten me… how many pairs of socks does the average Busanian own? Why are there *SO MANY* sock vendors in the city! I’m so confused.
After so many years of not visiting my boy Rocky, I finally made it down to Seattle to observe him in his natural habitat. It was fantastic. Seriously awesome city, and he’s about the best tour guide anyone could ask for. And with Kat happening to have a few days off work, the company to explore the city was superb. Can’t figure out why they’re supposed to be famous for the coffee though. It’s awful.
Lindsey - <3 <3 <3 Thank you so much for flying like 100 hours to come be cold in New Jersey for my wedding. The photos are fabulous. Love you long time too!
Carlina - …and I would fly 100 more.