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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 1,181: How The South Pacific Was Won

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 March 2012
  • Post category:Australia/Micronesia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

26.03.12: The Pacific, south of the equator line, is now complete. Yes, there were a handful of territories – Niue, Tokelau, French Polynesia, Pitcairn & Easter Island – that I…

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

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • 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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Days 988-989: WOO HOO!!!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:16 September 2011
  • Post category:Australia/Intermission/Papua New Guinea/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

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 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 583: Flashback

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:12 August 2010
  • Post category:India/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

07.08.10: So it was a cloudy, overcast day on which I returned to India after an absence of eight years. Not much has changed since then, but then I didn’t…

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Days 578-582: A Passage To India

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:11 August 2010
  • Post category:India/Pakistan/South Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/UAE
  • Post comments:6 Comments

02.08.10-06.08.10: Monday morning bright and early, the wonderful Pamela drove me to the Bur Dubai area of town and I headed over to the CMA-CGM offices to meet Barry Dinnadge,…

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Day 542: (Finally) Out Of Africa

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:29 June 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

27.06.10: We were supposed to cast off at 8am, or is that knitting? Might be getting my lingo muddled. Either way, the cargo operation wasn’t completed until the afternoon. The…

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Days 539 & 540: Back In The Red

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

23.06.10-24.06.10: We had to be at Baaboud Shipping for 7.30am, and, once again, Turki took time away from the office to take me there.  The level of hospitality and sheer…

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Day 538: The Old Jeddah Mind Trick

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

22.06.10: Turki had tried in vain all yesterday to get in touch with Baaboud Shipping and arrange a meeting with Ahmed.  But this morning we had better luck.  By 9.01am…

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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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