Welcome Back to Breakfast with Lisa & Josh!

If you look up any information on Busan, South Korea, you’ll find… a lot of people calling it boring. Without things to do. Without any depth. Just a vacation destination. Too sleepy. Too normal.

All of these people are wrong. Busan is incredible.

From the moment we got here via surprisingly-cheap bullet train from Seoul, we felt like we had landed in a place made just for us. Street food everywhere, cheap and great hotels, great public transportation, the ocean a few steps from our front door, and absolutely perfect weather. A more local feel. A more relaxed pace than the everyone-sprinting-from-place-to-place Seoul. It was all just right.

Looking back on it, I can see why people who came into Seoul would feel like Busan didn’t have enough. Seoul seems to go on forever, with endless events and things to do popping up around seemingly every corner. The comparatively slower pace of Busan could probably feel more like hitting the emergency brake than just slowing down a bit. But that’s only the surface here - there’s so many sides to Busan - there’s truly something for everyone.

Our first day here, we visited a beach, rode a cable car across a bay, ate some unfamiliar and delicious street food, went shopping in the world’s largest department store (all 14 stories of it), walked along the bay, and ended the day with the locals at our (now favorite) Korean bbq restaurant. All the while interacting with friendly locals, and taking in the incredible scenery.

The next day was filled with temples, history, culture, more KBBQ, and a fish market so big, so busy, so full of life that it felt like we were transported to another planet entirely.

What else could you want from a city?

Busan was precisely the opposite that everyone said it would be. The moral of the story here might be to not judge a book by its cover, or, more likely, don’t trust everything / anything that you read on the internet. You have to see it for yourself.

We’re leaving Busan today, unfortunately. I know we’ll be back. We were looking at prices for monthly rentals here before we left. It’s inevitable.

However, we’re heading someplace pretty special - an island in the middle of nowhere - via an overnight 12-hour-long ferry.

Jeju, here we come.

I wish we could take these tiny adorable cars all the way there, but alas, a boat will have to do. :)

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See you next Sunday…ish :)

- josh (and lisa)

Oh, and if you want to learn how we afford to take all these trips after quitting our jobs last year, you’ll likely be interested in our Skillshare course on Travel Hacking and Frequent Flier Miles. It’s been really taking off lately, but we still have a few uses of this link left for those of you who want to see the class for free. It comes with a free month of Skillshare, which is more than enough to watch our class and any of the other great courses on there!

Check it out here: https://skl.sh/lisaandjosh02221

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