Days 713-714: The Floating Menagerie
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…
Days 707-712: Fuzzy Logic
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…
Days 704-706: The Power and The Pelni
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'…
Days 701-703: Raiders Of The Lost Hat
02.12.10-04.12.10: At 3am the bus stopped so we could get something to eat. Obeying my circadian rhythms, I stayed on the bus and slept. At 5am we boarded the ship…
Day 700: The Shape of Things To Come
01.12.10: Seven HUNDRED days on the road!! Bloomin' eck. The boat to Sumbawa didn’t leave until 10am, so I kicked myself for not having a lie-in and a coffee. Onboard…
Day 699: The Ruteng Clan
30.11.10: After dragging myself out of bed at 6.30am, I wasn’t too chuffed when I was told that the minibus to the next waypoint, Ruteng, didn’t leave until 8am. But…
Day 698: The Ende of All Things
29.11.10: So the ferry pulled into Larantuka port nice and early, around 7am. Now I just had the small matter of the entirety of Flores to get across. Cast from…
Day 697: The Game Is Afoot!
28.11.10: Is The Odyssey possible? It’s been a question that has been bugging me for some time. Okay, I’ve made it this far, on the surface it looks like I’m…
Day 695: Gadzooks!
26.11.10 When I'm done with all this, I plan to turn The Odyssey Expedition into a board game. The ‘Chance’ and ‘Community Chest’ cards are going to renamed ‘Shipping’ and…
Day 694: El Presidente
25.11.10: So what do you know about East Timor? Not much? Good. You must be British. Or American. Aussies will have heard of the place for reasons I’ll come to…