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Day 398: Branson’s Pickle

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:6 February 2010
  • Post category:Cyprus/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
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02.02.10: Dragged my carcass off Zafer's couch a few minutes after seven, said my thank yous and goodbyes and soon enough I was down at the port clambering onto the…

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Day 397: Calypso’s Isle

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:1 February 2010
  • Post category:Cyprus/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
  • Post comments:6 Comments

01.02.10: When they say slow boat, they mean it! It was 11am before we reached port in Girne in the northern half of Cyprus. Northern half? What, like in St.…

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Day 396: The Slow Boat to Cyprus

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 January 2010
  • Post category:Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
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31.01.10: It was one of those mornings upon which it's far too cold, gravity seems to conspire against you and the snooze alarm makes it far, far too tempting... all…

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Day 395: The Silopi Slope

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 January 2010
  • Post category:Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
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30.01.10: I had checked in to a local hotel in Silopi, sharing a room with a few other guys to get the price down to $10 (which was pretty extortionate…

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Day 394: Chav and Chav-Nots

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 January 2010
  • Post category:Iraq/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
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29.01.10: You know what though – all these dangerous places I've been to, I haven't seen one gang of horrible teenage lads hanging around on a street corner with their…

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Day 393: The Morning After

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 January 2010
  • Post category:Iraq/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
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28.01.10: </object I woke up in the morning wearing all my clothes, with hardly any recollection of the night before and Mike Tyson's pet tiger in the room with me.…

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Day 392: Drunk… with an AK-47

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:27 January 2010
  • Post category:Iraq/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
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27.01.10: Londa hails from a place called Colorado in a little out-of-the-way country called America not far from Comoros, Sao Tome and Djibouti. She's been living in Iraq now for…

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Day 391: The Invasion of Iraq

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:26 January 2010
  • Post category:Iraq/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
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26.01.10: I blame Lonely Planet. The nearest town to the border of Iraq according to my guide book is a place called Sirnak, the real closest town is called Silopi.…

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Day 390: The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 January 2010
  • Post category:Middle East/Syria/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
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25.01.10: It was the wee small hours when we pulled into Aleppo in the top left corner of Syria. Not one to stand on ceremony and after last night's jiggery-pokery…

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Day 389: A Blizzard In Beirut

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 January 2010
  • Post category:Lebanon/Middle East/Syria/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

24.01.10: Before you could say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, I was on the coach heading to the Lebanese border. Again, Lebanon has a bit of a bad rap when it comes to popular…

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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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