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		<title>What (Not) To Take Backpacking!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Planning a trip to every country in the world? Worried about what you should and shouldn’t pack? My advice? TRAVEL LIGHT! It&#8217;s best to have too little and purchase stuff on the way than to have too much stuff and have to carry things that you never use for the best part of a year.
Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3586</link>
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		<title>Days 602-604: The Lost Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[28.08.10-30.08.10:
By 11am we had arrived in Kathmandu.  The bus ride had tested my X-Men power to the extreme (that power with which I can sleep anyplace, anywhere, anytime) but I had still managed a decent amount of shut-eye and was raring to go.  Dawshan had arranged for me to be picked up by the hotel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3580</link>
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		<title>Day 601: Easy Peasy Nepalesy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[27.08.10:
Duff information can be a real pain in this line of work, but it’s hard to know who you can trust.  Yesterday’s taxi driver was right about getting to the borders of Bangladesh and Bhutan, so when he told me that buses left from the Nepalese border for Kathmandu in the morning and would arrive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3578</link>
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		<title>Day 600: I Feel My Luck Could Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[26.08.10:
SIX HUNDRED DAYS ON THE ROAD!! Do I win a fiver?
Today started with a bit of a disaster when I awoke to find that my new laptop, Sony Jim, that I had cunningly placed between me and the wall the night before, was a lot more delicate than my old laptop, Dell Boy.  The screen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3575</link>
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		<title>Day 599: Bad Day At Black Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[25.08.10
And so the train pulled into Calcutta’s Howrah train station around 11am.  The plan was to head to the border with Bangladesh, do a quick border hop and then come back in time for tea and a train up towards Bhutan and Nepal.
However, my first problem was that (after queuing up a five different booths) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3572</link>
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		<title>Day 598: Chai Chai Chai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[24.08.10:
Bright and early for the 27 hour train journey to Calcutta and it was indeed sweet to be back on a train again after the horror that is an Indian night bus. I had gone for Air Conditioned class this time, the ticket cost twice as much (something like a tenner) but even though it’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3570</link>
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		<title>Day 597: And Never The Twain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[23.08.10:
Arrived in the town of Salem at some disgraceful hour of the morning – it wasn’t even light yet.  The bus was an old rust bucket held together with gaffer tape, but I did manage to get a few hours shut-eye.  The bus station, like everything in India, was TEN TIMES everything, so there was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3568</link>
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		<title>Days 591-596: Kochi Kochi Koo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[17.08.10-22.08.10:
Well it was another frustrating (but remarkably pleasant) week in Kochi spent contacting shipping firms, tour companies, even the head of the Sri Lanka tourist board in the UK, but it looks like hopping over the 15 miles from India to Sri Lanka is going to be more difficult than balancing an elephant on your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3564</link>
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		<title>Days 584-591: The Boat Race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[09.08.10-16.08.10:

“I always like going south – it feels like walking downhill” – Treebeard
India, being the awkward bugger that she is, flips the usual northern charm/southern coldness idiom on it’s head and gives us a country in which, in no uncertain terms, lures wayfarers down south to the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3527</link>
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		<title>Day 583: The Bombay Boo-Boo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[08.08.10:

Grr.  Sometimes your Lonely Planet can literally save your life, other times it can make your life a misery.  Today it was a case of the latter.  I got up, it was a nice quiet Sunday – well, quiet for Bombay – and I thought I’d have a nice little meander around Colaba, down to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theodysseyexpedition.com/?p=3522</link>
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