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Day 514: Cyclic Redundancy Check

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 May 2010
  • Post category:Arabia/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition/UAE
  • Post comments:4 Comments

29.05.10: UAE: I arrived in Dubai at precisely three hours later than the bus company promised, but that just meant three hours more kip… which is never to be sniffed…

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Day 465: Breakfast Of Champions

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Favourite/Iran/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

10.04.10: In what has to be the most touching thing that’s happened to me in the last 16 months of traversing the globe, last night on the bus from Shiraz,…

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Day 464: Persepolis

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:21 April 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Iran/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

09.04.10: Last night’s taxi took me to the coach station and within minutes, I was hurtling down through the good night towards Shiraz near the Gulf. When I arrived in…

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Day 454: Unpronounceabilistan

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

30.03.10: Wasn’t too happy when the guy from Vladivostok whom I was sharing the taxi with (and someone I thought was a friend) whipped out my passport and claimed I…

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Day 453: My Kingdom For A Biro

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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29.03.10: By 9am I was back outside the Kyrgyzstan embassy. I put my name down on the list and headed over to the DHL office to see if my replacement…

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Day 449: The Great Game

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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25.03.10: The plan today was simple. Well, I thought it was. First up, visit the Kyrgyzstan Embassy and hand over my passport, while that visa is processing put my application…

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Day 396: The Slow Boat to Cyprus

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:31 January 2010
  • Post category:Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
  • Post comments:0 Comments

31.01.10: It was one of those mornings upon which it's far too cold, gravity seems to conspire against you and the snooze alarm makes it far, far too tempting... all…

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Day 394: Chav and Chav-Nots

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 January 2010
  • Post category:Iraq/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
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29.01.10: You know what though – all these dangerous places I've been to, I haven't seen one gang of horrible teenage lads hanging around on a street corner with their…

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Day 391: The Invasion of Iraq

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:26 January 2010
  • Post category:Iraq/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition/Turkey
  • Post comments:5 Comments

26.01.10: I blame Lonely Planet. The nearest town to the border of Iraq according to my guide book is a place called Sirnak, the real closest town is called Silopi.…

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Day 388: The Road To Damascus

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 January 2010
  • Post category:Jordan/Middle East/Syria/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

23.01.10: Jordan was awesome. I really felt as if I had finally left Africa behind me and was back on the backpacker trail, rather than the backbreaker trial. I was…

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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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