Bonus episode #170 – Four days in Fukuoka
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to bonus episode number 170 of the Q-Lips English podcast. How's it going? I hope you're doing okay. Thank you for clicking play on this episode and joining me for another English study session. Here in our bonus episodes, what I do is I just tell you some stories from my everyday life. I'm a Canadian, but I live abroad in Seoul, South Korea. And I hope by listening to my stories, you'll be able just to hang out with me and spend some time in English. And as a result of doing that, you will be able to build your vocabulary and increase your knowledge of the culture of English speakers. You'll be able to build your fluency, all of these good things that will eventually result in you being fluent.
a confident and clear communicator in English. So if those are some of the things that you would like to achieve with your English learning, then I think you're in the right place and you'll enjoy hanging out with me here and hearing my story. Now in today's episode, what I'm going to do is tell you a couple of stories from my recent trip to Fukuoka, Japan. I just went there for four days with my wife. We had a lovely time. and I'll tell you about some of the highlights. But before we get started with my story, let me tell you about the absolutely free for everyone, no strings attached vocabulary glossary and interactive transcript for this episode. You can get them just by following the links in the description and they're great study tools.
I highly recommend checking them out. Plus, if you're a Q-Lips member, then you'll also get a comprehension quiz. And a huge thanks to all of our members out there for your support. We couldn't do Q-Lips without you. So thank you so much. And if you'd like to learn about becoming a Q-Lips member and all of the great benefits and bonuses that you get as a member, please just visit our website, Q-Lips.com. You can find out all of the details and sign up for an affordable price today. So as I said, my wife and I spent four days in Fukuoka last month. Fukuoka, for people who don't know, it's, I guess, a medium-sized city in the southern part of Japan. And I heard that it is the youngest city in Japan. I don't know if that's true or not.
That's just what I read online. But population wise, it has the youngest demographic, the youngest people, the youngest city in Japan. So it's got this youthful vibe, I suppose. And it's a medium sized city. So it's nowhere near the size of Tokyo, but it's still a big city. And in my opinion, it's kind of the right size, not too small, not too big, just right. It's in that Goldilocks zone. So I think in Fukuoka in February, usually it's almost spring. I think that's like when spring starts in Fukuoka because of its geographic location in the southern part of the country. However, when we visited, it was still very much winter. It was windy. It was cold. It was snowy, but it wasn't like too cold. I think it was cold for Fukuoka, but as a Canadian, I found it just perfect.
I thought this was great. And it was kind of nice to have that winter mood still in the city. Honestly, my wife and I didn't go in with having a big itinerary or a list of things to do. We just wanted to have a chill vacation and not have to run around from attraction to attraction to attraction. That's kind of my travel style and her travel style as well. And getting there is pretty easy. From Seoul to Fukuoka, the actual airplane ride, I think, took under an hour, maybe an hour and 10 minutes or something like this. So it's a very short, easy flight. Of course, you have all this rigmarole at the airport, which... makes your trip a lot longer. So from leaving our home to actually checking in at the hotel in Fukuoka, that was probably six hours or so.
What highlights does Andrew share about his trip to Fukuoka?
Going to the airport, checking in and flying and then doing the same on the other side. So that takes a long time. However, the airplane ride itself is very short. It's only an hour. And as we were passing over Busan, which is the largest city in the southern part of South Korea,
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