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Day 384: Am I Still Here?

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:19 January 2010
  • Post category:Egypt/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

19.01.10: Dammit – I should have left Egypt on Saturday morning. Instead, here I am three days later still in Cairo. I woke up at noon and decided it was…

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Read more about the article Day 382: The Pyramid Scheme

Day 382: The Pyramid Scheme

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:17 January 2010
  • Post category:Egypt/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

I was planning to be at the Jordanian Embassy first thing in the morning, but you know what I'm like by now and after going to sleep around 5am, I…

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Read more about the article Day 375: Odyssey Again

Day 375: Odyssey Again

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:10 January 2010
  • Post category:Egypt/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Here's what you need to do to get a visa for Sudan:Have two hours sleepTaxi to Sudanese EmbassyQueue up at the windowBe told to get a letter from own embassyGo…

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Read more about the article Day 367: Brookes Was Here

Day 367: Brookes Was Here

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:2 January 2010
  • Post category:Egypt/Middle East/The Odyssey Expedition
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To say that our hotel in Hurghada was a bit lousy would probably do insult to lousy hotels. My general dislike for large-scale tourist hotels was not helped by the…

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Read more about the article Day 365: We’re Here

Day 365: We’re Here

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:31 December 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Egypt/The Odyssey Expedition
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Egypt. Ground Zero. My first backpacking adventure was in Egypt ten years ago, an adventure which introduced me to the joys of backpacking, the love of deserts and the open…

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Read more about the article Day 355: Mr Stanley, I Presume

Day 355: Mr Stanley, I Presume

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:21 December 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Kenya/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Woke up on the bus, which had come to a halt sometime earlier in downtown Nairobbery. It was 5am as I staggered into a taxi and asked the driver to…

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Read more about the article Day 316: U-Turn

Day 316: U-Turn

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:12 November 2009
  • Post category:East Africa/Madagascar/The Odyssey Expedition
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Cuba. Cape Verde. Sao Tome and now the Seychelles – why do they have to make it so damn difficult to visit these islands on a boat? The Outer Islands…

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Read more about the article Day 301: Welcome To Lemurland

Day 301: Welcome To Lemurland

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:28 October 2009
  • Post category:Madagascar/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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Lemurs are one of my favourite animals on Earth. A primate, cut off from his cousins in Africa and Asia for over fifty million years, they are undoubtedly the cutest…

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Read more about the article Day 285: The Lilongwe Round

Day 285: The Lilongwe Round

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:12 October 2009
  • Post category:Malawi/Mozambique/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition/Zimbabwe
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Ah, well you see it's like this: I've been kicking myself (literally, you want to see the whelks on my ass) about Algeria and Libya. Not because Libya sounds like…

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Read more about the article Day 280: …And Nothing But The Tooth

Day 280: …And Nothing But The Tooth

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:7 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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Being a massive four months behind schedule now, I don't really have time for dossing about, but today I really needed to get things done. Jeans and teeth where the…

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