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Planning underway…

To start my planning, I ordered 2 books from Amazon which arrived just before Canada Day which was very nice because it gave me 4 days of the long weekend to pour over them. The books I ordered are: Lonely Planet Seoul Lonely Planet Korea The Lonely Planet books I used on Tokyo worked really well so I thought I'd stay with them again. I have only really gone through the Seoul book and so far, it's OK. I wish there were more pictures and that they were a bit more opinionated in terms of what sights are better than others in their descriptions of the places. It's still very early though in my research and I will undoubtedly be supplementing the info from the book with stuff I get off the internet (which I have already done and what I did for my Tokyo trip also). So far I've managed to select various sights for 4 or so of the neighbourhoods in Seoul and I've been plotting them on Google Earth. Did I mention that I am really meticulous when planning a trip? Mayb...