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Day 461: The Forbidden Stan

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:20 April 2010
  • Post category:Afghanistan/Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:4 Comments

06.04.10: Groggy and grumpy I awoke from my nightborn passage through Uzbekistan. Like Alexander The Great so many years before (and Michael Caine and Sean Connery more recently), I was…

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Day 460: The Wizard of Uz

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:19 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:0 Comments

05.04.10: Today was yet another D-Day in terms of getting visas and getting going.  Within minutes of me wiping the sleep from my eyes I arrived at the Turkmenistan embassy…

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Day 459: Doctorin’ The Docket

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:11 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:5 Comments

04.04.10: I may have mentioned this before, but for some stupid reason you have to register three days after you arrive in Uzbekistan.  The problem is you cannot register that…

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Day 458: Can You Imagine?

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:6 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:1 Comment

03.04.10: So where to next? The plan is on Monday to head off towards Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Three of the hardest countries in the world to visit and visit…

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Day 457: The Land That Time Forgot

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:4 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:0 Comments

02.04.10: By 5am I had made it around that pesky enclave of Sohk and had arrived at the border of Tajikistan. Chances are you know Afghanistan and Pakistan rather well,…

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Day 456: Bish Bash Bosh

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:2 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:1 Comment

01.04.10: Sorry about the lack of blog updates this month – I’ve been hammering the website to make it all fabby and groovy for when the telly show starts in…

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Day 453: My Kingdom For A Biro

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:0 Comments

29.03.10: By 9am I was back outside the Kyrgyzstan embassy. I put my name down on the list and headed over to the DHL office to see if my replacement…

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Days 451-452: Movin’ On Up

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:29 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:3 Comments

27.03.10-28.03.10: Woke up at Baha’s flat wondering if anybody got the number of the truck that hit me before stumbling back to Fred’s. Her mate in Samakand (down south) had…

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Day 450: The Incident

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:2 Comments

26.03.10: I had real trouble dragging myself out of bed this morning. I asked Fred to wake me up, which she did, but what I should have asked is for…

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Day 449: The Great Game

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
  • Post comments:0 Comments

25.03.10: The plan today was simple. Well, I thought it was. First up, visit the Kyrgyzstan Embassy and hand over my passport, while that visa is processing put my application…

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    • 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
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