Gapado is first on the agenda and the larger of the two. I haven’t been here yet so it’ll be new territory.
Marado, however, has been visited before, around this time last year. It’s almost as flat as a pancake and with no natural shade can be extremely hot in summer. There’s endless blue sky and ocean around. Food consists of seafood Jajangmyeon.
What I like about Marado is that it’s firmly OFF the foreigner tourist trail. Meaning that very few actually make the trip out here – even if you’re a resident.
It’s relatively easy to get there. Catching a bus from the Jeju City bus terminal will have you at Moseulpo harbour in about one hour. From there take the ferry.
When I was first getting the magazine going I did write a story on Marado which can be read here. It’ll be re-written for publication at a later date.
And in journalism news.
With a plethora of Journalism topics to blog about, tonight I’ll pick up on a post made by Matthew Ingram about the questionable usefulness of Del.icio.us for bookmarking stories:
It has occurred to me over the past year or so that while I religiously bookmark things, often dozens of them in a single day, I rarely go back and look them up. If I’m writing about something and I remember some details, I type them into Google and eventually track the page down.
It’s something I do too and have realized that I don’t actually go back to read my del.icio.us bookmarks often. I input fragments of what I remember about a page into Google and that’s usually enough to track down the relevant page again.
Having said that, I do find del.icio.us fantastic for finding quality pages that don’t have intrusive Google AdSense advertisements plastered all over them. Which is becoming a real issue these days.
