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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 1,371: 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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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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Day 532: The Cunning Plan

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 June 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Eritrea/Oman/Seychelles/The Odyssey Expedition/UAE
  • Post comments:1 Comment

16.06.10: After again saying my farewells to Luke and Dave, our mate Alasdair gave me a lift to the bus depot. After AGAIN being told the bus to Dubai was…

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Day 531: Less Than Zero

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:22 June 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Oman/Seychelles/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

15.06.10: Back in November 2009 when I was trying to sail the 166nm from Diego Suarez in Madagascar to the lower Seychelles islands, the threat of piracy stopped me in…

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Day 530: Somali Piracy: Q&A

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 June 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Oman/Seychelles/Somalia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

14.06.10: Yesterday I discovered that the chances of anybody taking me onboard a ship bound for The Seychelles was about one in a million.  I also found out that another…

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Days 522-529: Frankincensed

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 June 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Oman/Seychelles/Somalia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

06.06.10-13.06.10: The mission this week was to clamber on board the MV San Cristobal bound for The Seychelles.  As emails and phone calls went back and forth behind the scenes,…

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The Final Forty

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:4 June 2010
  • Post category:Featured
  • Post comments:6 Comments

Only forty more countries to go!!  But as you can no doubt see, I wasn’t joking when I said that the leaps were going to get harder!  This time last…

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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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