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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 1,391: 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 1,390: The Costa Living

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 October 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Indian Ocean/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Tue 23.10.12: The two days at sea passed like some velvet morning (when I’m straight). For the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to be less of a fat bastard…

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Day 1,371: Icarus, Not Daedalus

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:9 October 2012
  • Post category:Marooned!/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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Day 1,221: Ping Pong King Kong Hong Kong

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:13 May 2012
  • Post category:Hong Kong/Return To Southeast Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Sat 05.05.12: It took a few days, but on the evening of Friday 4th May you could see the bright lights of Hong Kong from the bridge of the good…

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VIDEO: Graham and Mandy’s Greek Odyssey (2004)

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 December 2011
  • Post category:Featured/Greece
  • Post comments:0 Comments

In the spring of 2004, when The Odyssey Expedition was still a pipe-dream, my girlfriend Mandy and I took a trip to the mainland of Greece. We visited the Oracle…

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Day 1,051: Mystery Island

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:27 November 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/The Odyssey Expedition/Vanuatu
  • Post comments:6 Comments

17.11.11: How could one not love a place called Mystery Island? An uninhabited island located in the very south of Vanuatu, this tiny dot of land is believed to be…

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Days 990-993: Go-Go-Gadget Backpack

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:20 September 2011
  • Post category:Australia/Intermission/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

17.09.11-20.09.11: Today THE ODYSSEY EXPEDITION gets its skates on again. Living up the traditional Odyssey brand, I’ve been waylaid for far too long - but thanks to some clever editing,…

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Days 725-762: Where Have You Been?

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:2 February 2011
  • Post category:Intermission/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:9 Comments

26.12.10-01.02.11: Well, I was hoping to be back on the road by now, but as anyone who’s been watching the news in the last couple of weeks will tell you,…

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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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  • 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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