Seoul

Breakfast at a sixty-year-old dumpling specialist, a morning at Deoksugung palace and its Western-style wings, a cable car up Namsan, the Starfield library in Gangnam, and Korean BBQ in Sinsa.

Start among wooden hanok houses in Bukchon, wander through the old alleys of Insadong, lunch on Gwangjang Market stalls, an afternoon up Naksan Park for a city view, and end the night on the grills of Hongdae.