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    • Part I: Man of the World
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Day 1,396: Neptune Strikes Back!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 October 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Madagascar/Reunion/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Mon 29.10.12: I knew it. I knew it was unwise to mock Neptune, that most capricious of Olympian Gods. Odysseus’s punishment for a perceived slight is what caused him to…

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Day 317: The Fake Southern Cross

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 November 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Madagascar/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

13.11.09: Another night of sleeping on a Madagascan minibus wasn't what I was really after when I came here. I feel like a tool now for not staying on the…

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Day 316: One Hell of a U-Turn

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 November 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Madagascar/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

12.11.09: Cuba. Cape Verde. Sao Tome and now the Seychelles – why do they have to make it so damn difficult to visit these islands on a boat? The Outer…

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Day 315: A Catatonic State

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 November 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Madagascar/The Odyssey Expedition
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11.11.09: Wow. When the guidebook says that Diego is sleepy, they weren't kidding. Which is possibly a good thing as my cold has reached its zenith and I feel like…

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Day 314: A Rose By Any Other Name

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 November 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Madagascar/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

10.11.09: My word, I've awoken in Australia! How'd THAT happen? Oh hang on, no - it's just Madagascar doing a damn fine impression of my crimson-tinctured second home. So today,…

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Day 313: Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 November 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Madagascar/The Odyssey Expedition
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09.11.09: Grr. I'm highly aggravated today, it's probably best if you keep a safe distance. First up, I get out of bed at the ungodly hour of 6am. Then I…

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Day 312: Madagascan Surprise

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 November 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Madagascar/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:5 Comments

08.11.09: Oops, Guatemala is spelt with an 'e' not an 'a', so my factette about Madagascar being the only country in the world with 4 'a's in the name seemed…

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Day 311: Here Be Pirates

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 November 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Indian Ocean/Madagascar/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

07.11.09: Polished off the new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol, which is, muh. Nowhere near as good as Angels & Demons or Da Vinci Code, the 'twist' was more…

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Pirates Stop Play!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:12 November 2009
  • Post category:Featured/Madagascar/Seychelles
  • Post comments:3 Comments

I feared this might happen. I've torn my way up to the very northern tip of Madagascar – just 166 nautical miles from the outer islands of the Seychelles –…

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Day 302: The Road Ahead

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:29 October 2009
  • Post category:Indian Ocean/Madagascar/Reunion/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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29.10.09: 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…

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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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