Petite France & Garden of the Morning Calm

The trip to Petite France was a least 30mins, which was ok, at least that gave us sometime to recover our energy, Daryl was complaining with a headache gosh children duh, so when we arrived, we looked for a coffee shop first to get some refreshments! 

Coffee Born bay

Found this nice cafe house just beside Petite France with a nice barista!

Cold drink for me on a cold weather..

I noticed that you could easily find some coffee shop around Korea and restaurant 

in even not so touristy spots, nice! 

Petite France

As the name implies, Petite France is a French themed village in the rural area of Gapyeong. Entrance for KRW10,000 for your French connection to marvel upon the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry works- Le Petit Prince which the village was inspired for!

Personally it was nothing really extraordinary just the European street vibe, Marionate dolls, antiques,  but can't help but notice that even the garden surrounding the village was not well-kept. The thought that My love from the Stars shoot here, and La vie en Rose on the background kept me kilig though!

Channeling my Steffi Cheon, don't call me, I call you! 

Saree, ok? Saree. 

Garden of the Morning Calm

Next we hop on again Gapyeong tour bus to our next destination, the Garden of the Morning Calm. We arrived  a little after 5PM but it was dark so fast! The temp. dropped so low, and the walk to the garden was a struggle. After a much needed hot fishcake along the streets to the garden entrance, we thought we might as well check the garden itself. 

Since unfortunately it was quite dark by the time we went inside, we saw part of the garden only, by this time temp. was so unbearable for Daryl who's (still) complaining of headache. Anyway,we managed some few good shots and finally on our way back to the bus station. If we had known better, we could've skipped Petite France and went straight to LOTMC for the love of Autumn gardens. I guess that's part of the tour experience! No worries, we do it next time yea ? We headed back to Cheongpyeong terminal since Gapyeong terminal's last trip is only until 7PM to bring us to Seoul station. 

The trip back was also quite an experience since we were confused with the train lines and we ran out of battery, omg. Luckily we were seated to a lady who speaks quite English well and she told us to take the train the other side which is going back to Seoul station- 10 stops. Oh no!? Oh yes.  

 Aaaand, finally after the long travel and getting lost,  we found ourselves back at Hoehyeon just around the exit is this  B2B,  a small eatery along the road  for a much needed rice and ramen before we retire for the night! Today ended well, thank you for today ...

we are so grateful!!!

Love,

marzylorie (^.^)