span style=”color:#000099;”emspan style=”font-size:130%;”Hello from Korea!/span/em I apologize for falling behind in sharing with you the photos and stories of this past week’s travels, racing and new location, culture, language, and food. This is the first in succession of posts that will hopefully fill you in on my time in Korea./span divdivdiv/divdivPyeongchang, the county that we are in, is located in the northeastern region of South Korea. Our overnight 9 hour flight from Amsterdam to Seoul, the capital of Korea, was smooth and similar to our North America to Europe flights. We left a mild winter climate in Germany and landed in what felt like a hazy, warm spring day in Seoul (Incheon/Seoul airport actually). On a peninsula with a coastal climate, Korea’s winters are mild and relatively short.br //divdivdiv/divbr /divbr /img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303987624963805250″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 251px; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_k1DHbqzFvCE/SZuMpKcJEEI/AAAAAAAAAfU/Hps4EeN5P5U/s400/pyeongchang-8.gif” border=”0″ /Flat coastal plains outside of Seoul and Incheon were punctuated by these high-rise apartment buildings surrounded by what looked like their agricultural resource – rows and rows of greenhouses.br /br /div
