We're heading back to Asia for the first time in almost ten years! Taiwan's been high on our list for a while, and the main part of this trip. The closest direct flight from Toronto was to Seoul, also on our list. About half way between Seoul and Taiwan is Okinawa, which has some cool UNESCO castles, and unique Ryūkyūan culture. It's also part of Japan which means I'll get to 100 countries on this trip :)
The weather in Seoul over Christmas is similar to December weather in Toronto. We're packing for anything from -10C to 20C. The rest of the trip should be comfortable, highs around 22C and lows around 15C. I signed up for typhoon alerts, although typhoon season typically ends in November. We already receive earthquake and tsunami alerts from our last trip to NZ and Fiji.
We're renting a car in Okinawa. Canadians need an International Driver's License for Japan (this is common where your license is in a different script) so I had a little trip to the CAA. I had to look it up, over the years we've had a car rental in 9 countries, and 7 of those were left-hand drive (there's 64 countries in the world that drive on the left, mostly former British colonies). Japan will make it 8 of 10. (Next Christmas we'll be in Namibia making it 9 of 11!). At least Google Maps makes it pretty easy to navigate, especially with offline maps.
In Seoul, Google Maps is limited for security reasons, so I've downloaded Naver. You can't offline or get walking directions in Seoul on Google Maps.
On the technical side, you can now subscribe to this travel blog! I also added cookie consent cause that's now required for Quebec, and this website is nothing if not over-engineered. You can also check out our Google Photos album optimized for the Nest Hub, which you can add as your Nest screensaver.
We fly out on in two weeks (Sat Dec 16), so likely won't post again until then.
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