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    • Part I: Man of the World
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      • 4. Europe
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      • 6. Central Africa
      • 7. Southern Africa
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    • Part II: Top of the World
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      • 3. Central Asia
      • 4. Arabia
      • 5. South Asia
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      • 7. Southeast Asia
      • 8. Australasia
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      • Epilogue
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Day 599: Chai Chai Chai

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition

24.08.10: Bright and early for the 27 hour train journey to Calcutta and it was indeed sweet to be back on a train again after the horror that is an…

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Day 598: Never The Twain

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition

23.08.10: Arrived in the town of Salem at some disgraceful hour of the morning – it wasn’t even light yet.  The bus was an old rust bucket held together with…

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Days 592-597: Now Then, Kerala

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition

17.08.10-22.08.10: Well it was another frustrating (but remarkably pleasant) week in Kochi spent contacting shipping firms, tour companies, even the head of the Sri Lanka tourist board in the UK,…

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Days 585-592: The Boat Race

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:16 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition

09.08.10-16.08.10: “I always like going south – it feels like walking downhill” – Treebeard India, being the awkward bugger that she is, flips the usual northern charm/southern coldness idiom on…

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Day 584: The Bombay Boo-Boo

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:13 August 2010
  • Post category:India/Rants/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition

08.08.10: Grr.  Sometimes your Lonely Planet can literally save your life, other times it can make your life a misery.  Today it was a case of the latter.  I got…

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Days 578-582: A Passage To India

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:11 August 2010
  • Post category:India/Pakistan/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/UAE

02.08.10-06.08.10: Monday morning bright and early, the wonderful Pamela drove me to the Bur Dubai area of town and I headed over to the CMA-CGM offices to meet Barry Dinnadge,…

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New Twitter Feed: “EveryCountry”

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:20 July 2010
  • Post category:Featured

If you want to follow The Odyssey Expedition and Graham's World on Twitter, you can follow me using my shiny new account name - EveryCountry - by clicking on this…

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Day 548: World Cup Pool Party

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:10 July 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/The Odyssey Expedition/UAE

02.07.10: So I rolled back into Dubai for the third time of asking. After a delightful chat with the Filipino women who worked in the Burger King by the Saptco…

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Day 547: Nothing To See Here, Move Along

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:7 July 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Saudi Arabia/The Odyssey Expedition/UAE

01.07.10: I arrived in Riyadh around 12 noon and thought about heading out to the town as I had a few hours until the bus to Dubai departed. Well I…

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Day 546: Gra’m Crackers

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 June 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Saudi Arabia/The Odyssey Expedition

30.06.10: I got a call of the Mandster saying that her mum’s mate had seen a trailer for my television show on cable TV in Australia. A bit (all right…

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