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THE ODYSSEY WORLD VISA GUIDE

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:17 December 2010
  • Post category:Featured
  • Post comments:5 Comments

One of the things that holds back many people from travelling is the prospect of wasting time and effort attempting to get into countries that would quite prefer it if…

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Day 696: Yes I Awoke

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/East Timor/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

27.11.10: But only because Dan woke me up.  Groggy and sleep deprived I clambered onto the minibus that would be speeding me back to Kupang.  Bye bye Dili!  The minibus…

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Day 695: Gadzooks!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/East Timor/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

26.11.10 When I'm done with all this, I plan to turn The Odyssey Expedition into a board game. The ‘Chance’ and ‘Community Chest’ cards are going to renamed ‘Shipping’ and…

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Day 694: El Presidente

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/The Odyssey Expedition
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25.11.10: So what do you know about East Timor?  Not much?  Good.  You must be British.  Or American.  Aussies will have heard of the place for reasons I’ll come to…

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Day 693: A Red Background

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/East Timor/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

24.11.10: Today’s adventures centre around my efforts to get a new Indonesian visa. Indonesia, being a bit of an awkward sod, only allows you to pick up visas at certain…

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Day 692: The Moral Landscape

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:East Timor/Indonesia/Rants/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

23.11.10: What’s worse than having to get up at 5am for a bus?  The bus turning up at your hotel twenty minutes early!  And then beeping REALLY LOUDLY, waking everybody…

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Day 691: The Authorisation

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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22.11.10: It was a 9am showdown at the East Timor Consulate in Kupang.  Luckily for me, Simon and Chesa where there, and Chesa, being Indonesian, could explain my predicament to…

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The PLAN!!!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:18 October 2010
  • Post category:Featured/Pacific
  • Post comments:11 Comments

So here we are, 180 countries down and just 20 to go – it’s mad to think that I only left Shanghai just over two weeks ago, and in that…

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Odyssey Blog

  • 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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