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Day 1,420: Who Wants To Be A Trillionaire?

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/South Africa/The Odyssey Expedition/Zimbabwe
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Tue 20.11.12: After grabbing a whole three hours of sleep, it was time to SLAM DUNK DA FUNK and hit the road once more. NORTH MISS TESCHMACHER!! Janine, being the…

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Day 1,419: We Advance At Dawn

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/South Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Mon 19.11.12: It was 0600 when my wake-up call came through from the third officer, but he need not have bothered: I was already wide awake. Giddy with that I-can-believe-this-is-actually-happening…

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Days 1,411-8: The Maersk Sebarok

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Indian Ocean/Mauritius/South Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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Sun 11.11.12 - Sun 18.11.12 I was up an’ at ’em! by 8am, and by 8.30am I was on the bus back to Port Louis. I didn’t get to say…

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“Graham’s World”: My Very Own TV Show Starts Tuesday!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 June 2010
  • Post category:Canada/Cape Verde/Egypt/Featured/Gabon/South Africa/Tunisia/Turkey/USA
  • Post comments:10 Comments

Okay, Odyssey fans... this is it, the television show documenting my travels is being shown every TUESDAY at on the Nat Geo Adventure Channel, which is available in 40 countries…

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Read more about the article Day 285: The Lilongwe Round

Day 285: The Lilongwe Round

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:12 October 2009
  • Post category:Malawi/Mozambique/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition/Zimbabwe
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Ah, well you see it's like this: I've been kicking myself (literally, you want to see the whelks on my ass) about Algeria and Libya. Not because Libya sounds like…

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Read more about the article Day 284: Zambezi-Peasy

Day 284: Zambezi-Peasy

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:11 October 2009
  • Post category:Mozambique/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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But at 5am, I was up an at 'em, kicking ass all the way up to Tete on what was admittedly a dreadful bus journey. All I wanted to do…

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Read more about the article Day 283: Back on the Hard Road

Day 283: Back on the Hard Road

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:10 October 2009
  • Post category:Mozambique/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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First up, buses in Mozambique are not allowed to run at night (no street lights + drunk drivers = too dangerous), which is why the bus left at half-four in…

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Read more about the article Day 282: Havin’ a Mozey

Day 282: Havin’ a Mozey

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:9 October 2009
  • Post category:Mozambique/South Africa/Southern Africa/Swaziland/The Odyssey Expedition
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You know when you should really be getting up but you just really can't be bothered? That was me this morning. Feeling a little bad for waking Lilianna with my…

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Read more about the article Day 281: Hey Ya!

Day 281: Hey Ya!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:8 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/Swaziland/The Odyssey Expedition
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Staggeringly early bus to Swaziland, but I needn't have bothered. Let me explain; I rose at the butt-crack to get my ultra-early bus across the border into Swaziland, which is…

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Read more about the article Day 280: …And Nothing But The Tooth

Day 280: …And Nothing But The Tooth

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:7 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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Being a massive four months behind schedule now, I don't really have time for dossing about, but today I really needed to get things done. Jeans and teeth where the…

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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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