Day 311: Here Be Pirates
Polished off the new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol, which is, to be quite blunt, f---ing awful. The 'twist' was more obvious than if Bruce Willis spent the entirety…
Day 310: Slight Return
So by a bizarre set of coincidences, I find myself back in Mauritius. That's okay – the last time that I came here, I actually left with a profit. This…
Day 309: The DAL Madagascar
The guys from next door came over for a farewell breakfast, which kind of spilled over to a farewell elevenses and then a farewell lunch. In fact, before I left,…
Day 308: Vans Across The World
My poor old Vans. Used, abused, stuck to my feet for over 300 days of constant toil and hardship and now imbued with a smell that could only be described…
Day 307: Passportout
TEAM ODYSSEY has a tentative lead – a cargo ship, the "DAL Madagascar" leaves here on Thursday (today is Tuesday), perhaps bound for Madagascar. This is of course great news,…
Day 306: The Reunion in Réunion
Finally free of the good ship Trochetia (at least for a while) I made my way from La Port to St. Denis and caught the number 6 bus towards Mickael's…
Day 305: The Hangover
Urgh. What a stupid idea THAT was. I woke up at 3pm, realising instantly that at 3pm, I'm supposed to be on board the Trochetia for the trip back to…
Day 304: Drink Your Way Around The World
I stepped off the Trochetia and into country 124 feeling marvelously, marvelous about this turn of events. Simply put, I couldn't have done this any faster. Considering that I only…
Day 303: Et Voila!
The Trochetia is great. It makes me sick every time that I think of the Shissiwani II costing me a comparable sum of money for three nights of hell, sleeping…
Day 302: The Road Ahead
My entire route for The Odyssey is mapped out in my head and has been for years so I never bother looking at the route plan; but just for giggles…