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Day 669: One Hell of a Halloween

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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31.10.10: I left the Mariott with a spring in my step.  I had my book back and I had plenty of time to get to the train station, even considering…

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Day 668: Back in Jak Jak

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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30.10.10: So I was expecting the ferry to arrive in Jakarta this morning. HA! Considering the boat was eight hours late getting out of port, I adjusted my expectations accordingly. …

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Day 667: Captain Bob

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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29.10.10: So last night I arrived onboard the ferry from Pontianak on Borneo to Jakarta on Java.  As I entered the passenger area, what could adequately be described as a…

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Day 654: Time and Tide

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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16.10.10: The most irritating thing in the world – aside from Russell Brand – is when your infernal debit card gets declined at a foreign ATM because the bank assumes…

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Day 653: As The Miller Told His Tale

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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15.10.10: First things first, I called the ferry company and found out when the next ship to Borneo was departing – not today but tomorrow, but that’s better than a…

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Day 652: You Don’t Know Jakarta

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 October 2010
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14.10.10: Thursday took a while to get going.  While my fellow travellers (in another cabin and arguably less full of Johnnie Walker) were rudely awoken at the crack of dawn…

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Day 651: Lion City

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 October 2010
  • Post category:Indonesia/Malaysia/Singapore/Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
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13.10.10: Singapore! World’s End!  You can get here all the way across the mega-continent of Eurasia from John O’Groats to Raffles via the Channel Tunnel, the Urals and the causeway…

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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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