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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
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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 685: A Bunch of Flores

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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16.10.10: The next boat that would sensibly get me to the island of Timor is leaving the southern port town of Aimere on Friday morning.  It’ll take me all of…

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Day 684: The Slow Fast Boat

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 November 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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15.11.10: The bus drove through the night, arriving in the eastern port town of Sape at 8am, just in time for the ferry to Labuanbajo in Flores.  The helpful tout…

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Day 656: When I Left School

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Malaysia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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18.10.10: Borneo.  The second biggest island in the world, home of the mighty orang-utan and some of the last virgin rainforest left on Earth.  It’s divided between three countries –…

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Day 645: Charlie Don’t CouchSurf

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:13 October 2010
  • Post category:Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Vietnam
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07.10.10: Arrived Saigon at about 9am and scooted over to District 1 to meet up with me auld mucka Stan, here in South East Asia on holiday with his soon-to-be…

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Days 603-605: The Lost Weekend

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 August 2010
  • Post category:Nepal/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Tibet
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28.08.10-30.08.10: By 11am we had arrived in Kathmandu.  The bus ride had tested my X-Men power to the extreme (that power with which I can sleep anyplace, anywhere, anytime) but…

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Day 601: I Feel My Luck Could Change

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:27 August 2010
  • Post category:Bangladesh/Bhutan/India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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26.08.10: Today started with a bit of a disaster when I awoke to find that my new laptop, Sony Jim, that I had cunningly placed between me and the wall…

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Where Do We Go From Here?

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:15 June 2010
  • Post category:Featured
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I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in the Omani town of Salalah trying to find a way to catch a lift on a container ship to The Seychelles.  Three…

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This is THE ODYSSEY!

  • Post author:Leo Skelly
  • Post published:31 December 2008
  • Post category:Featured/South America
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The Odyssey is an epic adventure, a world first, a race against time, a year (or two) of living dangerously!! Scouse film maker Graham Hughes' barking, madcap adventure TO EVERY…

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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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