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    • Part I: Man of the World
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      • 8. Australasia
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Day 1,026: The Wake-Up Call

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:7 November 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Solomon Islands/The Odyssey Expedition
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23.10.11: Thomas woke me up some time after ten to tell me that he was going out with Patti for a bit. I dragged myself out of bed and marvelled…

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Days 1,007-1,013: The Lae Delay

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  • Post published:30 October 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition

04.10.11-10.10.11: Well I haven’t gone anywhere but by jingo it’s been a fun week here in sunny old Lae. Ah, it’s not as bad as everyone makes out: the town…

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Day 1,006: As I Went Down In The River To Lae

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  • Post published:5 October 2011
  • Post category:Melanesia/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
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03.10.11: In the morning Mums Singin was good enough to pick me up from Katherine’s flat for a quick tour of the museum that she curated before I left for…

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Days 988-989: WOO HOO!!!

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  • Post published:16 September 2011
  • Post category:Australia/Intermission/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
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15.09.11-16.09.11: I’ve just heard back from Martin at China Navigation (the subsidiary of Swire Shipping involved with PNG) and the good news is that there is a ship willing and able to…

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Days 715-721: My Papua Visa Hell

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  • Post published:23 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Favourite/Indonesia/Papua New Guinea/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition
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16.12.10-22.12.10: You know, when I stepped out of the Vietnamese Consulate back in September I honestly thought that my days of being trapped like a cog in the bureaucratic nightmare…

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How To Travel The World On The Cheap!

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  • Post published:21 December 2010
  • Post category:Canada/Cape Verde/Egypt/Featured/Gabon/Indonesia/Tunisia/Turkey/USA
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I've been stuck on the border with Papua New Guinea for the last few days, so not wanting to waste my time I made this here video for ya! It's…

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Days 713-714: The Floating Menagerie

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  • Post published:16 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
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14.12.10-15.12.10: Crikey! This ship is even worse than the last one. At least on board the last on I had a bed. Here it’s every man for himself, and as…

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Days 707-712: Fuzzy Logic

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  • Post published:14 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
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08.12.10-13.12.10: The ship came into the sleepy port town of Sorong in West Papua pretty much on time, which made me happy.  At the port I was met by the…

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Days 704-706: The Power and The Pelni

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  • Post published:8 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
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05.12.10-07.12.10: Noah had nothing on this. All life is here – spread out all over the floor. Picnics, knick-knacks, porridge, rice and tic-tacs. Families, feuds, filth, food and funny lookin'…

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Days 701-703: Raiders Of The Lost Hat

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  • Post published:5 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
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02.12.10-04.12.10: At 3am the bus stopped so we could get something to eat.  Obeying my circadian rhythms, I stayed on the bus and slept.  At 5am we boarded the ship…

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