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Day 514: Cyclic Redundancy Check

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 May 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition/UAE
  • Post comments:4 Comments

29.05.10: UAE: I arrived in Dubai at precisely three hours later than the bus company promised, but that just meant three hours more kip… which is never to be sniffed…

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Day 513: Curse of the Black Pearl

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 May 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/The Odyssey Expedition
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28.05.10: So with a day to kill, Tracy and I headed out to the museum of Islamic Art. As I’ve mentioned before, with a pretty much outright ban in place…

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Day 465: Breakfast Of Champions

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Favourite/Iran/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

10.04.10: In what has to be the most touching thing that’s happened to me in the last 16 months of traversing the globe, last night on the bus from Shiraz,…

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Day 464: Persepolis

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Iran/The Odyssey Expedition
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09.04.10: Last night’s taxi took me to the coach station and within minutes, I was hurtling down through the good night towards Shiraz near the Gulf. When I arrived in…

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Day 454: Unpronounceabilistan

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/The Odyssey Expedition
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30.03.10: Wasn’t too happy when the guy from Vladivostok whom I was sharing the taxi with (and someone I thought was a friend) whipped out my passport and claimed I…

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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
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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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Day 448: Paranoid? Who Said That?!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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24.03.10: I woke to find the two guys that I was sharing a room with sitting on their beds staring at me like I had just dropped from space and…

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Day 419: Roman Holiday

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 February 2010
  • Post category:France/Italy/North Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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23.02.10: At some disastrously early hour, I was roused from my slumber by our rather impertinent arrival in Milan, which necessitated a change of buses. Didn’t get to see too…

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Day 418: Paris When It Drizzles

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 February 2010
  • Post category:England/France/North Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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22.02.10: Woke up at Stan’s gaff at some monstrously early hour, but Stan was good enough to not only make me a cup of tea, but to drive me to…

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Day 402: Don’t Stop Believin’

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:16 February 2010
  • Post category:Austria/Bulgaria/Cyprus/England/France/Germany/Hungary/North Africa/Romania/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
  • Post comments:1 Comment

06.02.10: The last two blogs aren't true. I just made them up. Sorry, it would have ruined the surprise. Here's what really happened... When I was in Cyprus last Tuesday,…

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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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