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Day 1,885: The Last Post

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 January 2013
  • Post category:Epilogue/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

Fri 28.02.14: It's taken over a YEAR of deliberation, but it's official: Guinness World Records have sent me notification that I am, without a shadow of a doubt, the first…

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Day 1,400: The Wandering Rocks

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:4 November 2012
  • Post category:Argentina/Final Frontiers/Reunion/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

Fri 02.11.12: Don’t get me wrong, I really love Réunion – it’s fun, the weather is like perpetual spring, the food is great and my French has improved in the…

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Day 1,391: I Sell Seychelles

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 October 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Seychelles/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:9 Comments

Wed 24.10.12: Country 2-0-0. Friends, can you BELIEVE IT? Nope. Neither can I, which is good, because Seychelles is quite an unbelievable place. In a good way. Unlike The Maldives,…

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Day 1,387: The Maldeviants

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 October 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Maldives/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:10 Comments

Sat 20.10.12: Friday was spent at sea, familiarising myself with the ship. Good news: the bars are open until 2am. Bad news: I don’t have enough money to drink. I’ve…

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Day 1,385: The Ally-Ally-O

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:20 October 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/India/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Thu 17.10.12: After firing off my blog on Wednesday evening I met with Niall Doherty, a fellow overlander who has been suck in Cochin for the past few weeks trying…

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Day 1,371: Icarus, Not Daedalus

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:9 October 2012
  • Post category:Sri Lanka/Stuck In Sri Lanka/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:10 Comments

Tue 02.10.12 My incredible plan for Sunday night was stay up all night drinking and partying at Chili’s Bar in Unawatuna. Then I was to take first express bus back…

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Days 1,003-1,005: A Weekend In Madang

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:5 October 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

30.09.11-02.10.11: The Lutheran Shipping ferry slid into Madang port bang on 7am, which was the exact time the captain told me it would arrive. I have to say, I was…

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Days 985-987: Saddle Up, People!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:14 September 2011
  • Post category:Australia/Intermission/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:5 Comments

12.09.11-14.09.11: The time for procrastination is over. Much of this year has been spent – some might say wasted - holding out hope for a yachtie to invite me onboard…

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THE ODYSSEY: Review of 2010

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:1 January 2011
  • Post category:Australasia/Featured
  • Post comments:1 Comment

January 2010 I started the year in fine fettle.  Having met Mandy at the pyramids in Egypt for midnight on New Year's Eve we spent a wonderful week together before…

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Day 723: Fairytale of New Guinea

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Australia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:6 Comments

24.12.10: Amazingly, the ferry boat arrived at Wewak early: by 4am, we were less than a mile from the port.  I stood out on deck: it had been a hot…

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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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