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Day 399: Istanbulldozin’

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  • Post published:6 February 2010
  • Post category:North Africa/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
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03.02.10: The bus arrived bang on time in good ol' Istanbul – the only city in the world that straddles two continents. I wandered down to the Metro to find…

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Day 395: The Silopi Slope

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  • 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

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  • 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 391: The Invasion of Iraq

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Post published:24 January 2010
  • Post category:Lebanon/Middle East/Syria/The Odyssey Expedition
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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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Day 385: Crossing Jordan

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  • Post published:20 January 2010
  • Post category:Egypt/Jordan/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
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20.01.10: This morning we arrived in Nuweiba, the Egyptian border town from where the boat for Jordan departs. You see if you tried to go overland through Israel, which would…

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Day 384: Am I Still Here?

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  • Post published:19 January 2010
  • Post category:Egypt/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
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19.01.10: Dammit – I should have left Egypt on Saturday morning. Instead, here I am three days later still in Cairo. I woke up at noon and decided it was…

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Day 381: You Can’t Be Siwa-ous

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  • Post published:16 January 2010
  • Post category:Egypt/Libya/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
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This time last year, I had visited every country in South America. This year, I've been to one new country, Sudan. Pathetic! Well, I was soon to make amends... within…

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Day 366: That Was The Decade That Was…

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  • Post published:1 January 2010
  • Post category:Egypt/Middle East/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition
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Welcome, friends, to our newest, shiniest decade in years. And, might I say, good riddance to the old one, the rotten turnip that it was.The decade in which being clever…

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