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    • The Odyssey Expedition
    • Graham David Hughes
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  • Odyssey Blog
    • Part I: Man of the World
      • 1. South America
      • 2. The Caribbean
      • 3. Central & North America
      • 4. Europe
      • 5. West Africa
      • 6. Central Africa
      • 7. Southern Africa
      • 8. East Africa
    • Part II: Top of the World
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      • 2. North Africa
      • 3. Central Asia
      • 4. Arabia
      • 5. South Asia
      • 6. East Asia
      • 7. Southeast Asia
      • 8. Australasia
    • Part III: End of the World
      • 1. Intermission
      • 2. Melanesia
      • 3. Polynesia
      • 4. Micronesia
      • 5. Return to SE Asia
      • 6. Marooned!
      • 7. The Final Frontiers
      • 8. The Journey Home
      • Epilogue
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Day 648: The Golden L-Shape

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:26 October 2010
  • Post category:Burma/Laos/Southeast Asia/Thailand/The Odyssey Expedition

10.10.10: BANG! Before my brain could register where I was and what was going on, the front of the bus bounced a good foot off the ground, jolting my fellow…

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Day 647: Nobody Does It Better

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:18 October 2010
  • Post category:Cambodia/Southeast Asia/Thailand/The Odyssey Expedition/Vietnam

09.10.10: The bus arrived at the Cambodian border at around 3.30am, and we had to wait until the damn thing opened (at 7am) before we could proceed.  Bit of an…

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The PLAN!!!

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:18 October 2010
  • Post category:Featured/Pacific

So here we are, 180 countries down and just 20 to go – it’s mad to think that I only left Shanghai just over two weeks ago, and in that…

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Day 646: Slumdong Millionaire

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:15 October 2010
  • Post category:Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Vietnam

08.10.10: After a good couple of hours kip, I was roused by Thro on his way out to work.  I started uploading my epic Korea blog now that I could…

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Day 645: Charlie Don’t CouchSurf

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:13 October 2010
  • Post category:Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Vietnam

07.10.10: Arrived Saigon at about 9am and scooted over to District 1 to meet up with me auld mucka Stan, here in South East Asia on holiday with his soon-to-be…

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Days 643-644: Back in ‘Nam

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:13 October 2010
  • Post category:China/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Vietnam

05.10.10-06.10.10: I arrived in the Chinese town of Nanning exceptionally early in the morning and looked about for transport to the border.  I honestly can’t remember how I got there,…

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Day 642: Chinglish For Lovers

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:13 October 2010
  • Post category:China/East Asia/The Odyssey Expedition

04.10.10: And the bus so pulled entered Chinese city Guangzhou and exited the ginger adventurer who you liked. If I have ridden a direct bus to Nanning (my under destination…

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Days 640-641: Sino-Sino Relations

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:13 October 2010
  • Post category:China/East Asia/Taiwan/The Odyssey Expedition

02.10.10-03.10.10: In answer to the question I posed at the end of the last blog: VERY EASILY.  Yup, just like the globe (thanks to oil companies and climate changer deniers),…

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Days 630-639: Shanghaied In Shanghai

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:9 October 2010
  • Post category:China/East Asia/The Odyssey Expedition

Day 630: A Moment of Terror 22.09.10 You know that stomach-dropping moment of terror you have when you realise that you’ve just, like really, really messed up?  I had one…

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