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Day 886: An Open Letter to Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:5 June 2011
  • Post category:Australia/England/Intermission/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:5 Comments

05.06.11: After the death threats I received for slagging off the Cape Verde police force on this very blog, I learnt a pertinent lesson: don’t say what you really think…

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Days 715-721: My Papua Visa Hell

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Favourite/Indonesia/Papua New Guinea/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:11 Comments

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!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 December 2010
  • Post category:Canada/Cape Verde/Egypt/Featured/Gabon/Indonesia/Tunisia/Turkey/USA
  • Post comments:1 Comment

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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THE ODYSSEY WORLD VISA GUIDE

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:17 December 2010
  • Post category:Featured
  • Post comments:5 Comments

One of the things that holds back many people from travelling is the prospect of wasting time and effort attempting to get into countries that would quite prefer it if…

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Days 713-714: The Floating Menagerie

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:16 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

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

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:14 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

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

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:8 December 2010
  • Post category:Australasia/Indonesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

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 585-592: The Boat Race

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:16 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

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 512: There’s Always An Irish Pub…

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:29 May 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

27.05.11: As if Qatar hadn’t done enough to upset me, today it well and truly rained on my parade.  I was planning to meet up with friends I had met…

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Day 508: Deliverance

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 May 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Kuwait/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

23.05.10: Tracking numbers are so cool.  I got to watch online as my passport arrived in Bahrain yesterday and then arrived here just after 8am today.  The DHL guys even…

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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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