Last weekend my wife and I went to a wedding, one of her coworkers got married.

The wedding took place at 11 a.m. on Saturday morning on the other side of the city from where we live.

Usually on Saturday morning we try to sneak in an extra hour or two of sleep,

but last week was different.

We were up in Adam early, we had outfits to choose, clothes to iron, and at least in my wife's case, hair and makeup to do.

When we were ready to go, we left our apartment and we walked the 15 minute walk to the subway station to whisk off across the city to the wedding hall.

Now, although the venue was only around 15 kilometers away from our house the trip

still took close to an hour and I guess that's just what happens when you live in a big

city there are many obstacles in your way

that stop you from going from point A to point B.

There are people, stop lights, buildings, traffic,

and all of those things. And sometimes they just get in your way.

I often joke to my wife that if there were a street that went directly to our

destination, then I could probably run there faster than she could by traveling on public transportation.

But don't get me wrong, the public transportation here in Seoul is world class. It's cheap, it's clean, it's

quiet, it runs on time, it's safe, you really couldn't ask for more. And although

I haven't ridden all of the public transportation systems in the world,

I'm lucky to have ridden quite a few, and I have to say that I think souls is the best.

I'm not just playing favorites because I live here. I honestly think it's world class and one of the best in the world. And even for people who don't speak

Korean it's really easy to navigate and it takes you wherever you need to go.

So when my wife and I were riding to the wedding, I noticed just how eerily quiet the Saturday morning subway was and

it got me thinking about Canadian public transportation and the differences between

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