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Day 353: A Dish Called Rwanda

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 December 2009
  • Post category:Burundi/Comoros/Djibouti/East Africa/Rwanda/Tanzania/The Odyssey Expedition
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19.12.09: Wow. Rwanda. Like, really, wow. I know what I like and I like what I see. I dragged my reluctant carcass out of bed at some ungodly hour and…

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Day 349-50: All Aboard The Good Ship Simacom!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:19 December 2009
  • Post category:Comoros/East Africa/Indian Ocean/The Odyssey Expedition
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15.12.09-16.12.09: Yesterday I and 43 other passengers boarded the 'Simacom' bound for Dar es Saleem, three weeks to the day since I arrived in Comoros. It was supposed to have…

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Days 318-348: Don’t Look Back In Anger

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:19 December 2009
  • Post category:Comoros/East Africa/Indian Ocean/Mauritius/Mayotte/The Odyssey Expedition
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14.11.09-14.12.09: Oh Graham, you tease, what's the meaning of this, compressing an entire MONTH of gallivanting into just one blog entry? Well, truth be told if there was something of…

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Day 298: The Secret of My Itchy Feet

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 October 2009
  • Post category:Comoros/Indian Ocean/Rants/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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25.10.09: So how did I come to be such a champion adventurer, eh? Not really the likely sort I guess – spent most of my teenage years picking my nose…

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Day 297: The Joy of Mojangaya

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 October 2009
  • Post category:Comoros/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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24.10.09: One of those mornings where I really, really can't be bothered getting out of bed, but I haul myself out regardless – after today, there isn't another boat to…

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Day 296: Cloud Coup Coup Land

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 October 2009
  • Post category:Comoros/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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23.10.09: Can't help but feel that I wasted today. I did waste today. Today was wasted. I got up when I could be bothered, which for the first time in…

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Day 295: Moroni Planet

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 October 2009
  • Post category:Comoros/Southern Africa/Tanzania/The Odyssey Expedition
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22.10.09: I was convinced that I'd be on this sticking hole of a boat until tomorrow morning. Imagine my relief when I went onto the bridge this afternoon to charge…

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  • 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
    • 1. The Middle East
    • 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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