Reunion – The Odyssey Expedition

Day 1,406: The Lava Meets The Sea

Post Author:Graham
Post published:11/11/2012
Post Category:Reunion / The Odyssey Expedition
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Thu 08.11.12: In many ways, Thursday was (yet another) D-Day for this phase of The Odyssey Expedition. I had a choice to make: I could stick here on Réunion and…

Day 1,405: Four More Years

Post Author:Graham
Post published:11/11/2012
Post Category:Reunion / The Odyssey Expedition
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Wed 07.11.12: Rubbing eyes, blinking, stumbling into the light the week began. What the hell am I going to do now? With no second passport, my passage to the African…

Day 1,400: The Wandering Rocks

Post Author:Graham
Post published:04/11/2012
Post Category:Argentina / Reunion / The Odyssey Expedition
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Fri 02.11.12: Don’t get me wrong, I really love Réunion – it’s fun, the weather is like perpetual spring, the food is great and my French has improved in the…

Day 1,396: Neptune Strikes Back!

Post Author:Graham
Post published:31/10/2012
Post Category:Madagascar / Reunion / The Odyssey Expedition
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Mon 29.10.12: I knew it. I knew it was unwise to mock Neptune, that most capricious of Olympian Gods. Odysseus’s punishment for a perceived slight is what caused him to…

Day 309: The DAL Madagascar

Post Author:Graham
Post published:17/11/2009
Post Category:Reunion / The Odyssey Expedition
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05.11.09: The guys from next door came over for a farewell breakfast, which kind of spilled over to a farewell elevenses and then a farewell lunch. In fact, before I…

Day 308: Vans Across The World

Post Author:Graham
Post published:17/11/2009
Post Category:Reunion / The Odyssey Expedition
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04.11.09: My poor old Vans. Used, abused, stuck to my feet for over 300 days of constant toil and hardship and now imbued with a smell that could only be…

Day 307: Passportout

Post Author:Graham
Post published:17/11/2009
Post Category:Reunion / The Odyssey Expedition
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03.11.09: TEAM ODYSSEY has a tentative lead – a cargo ship – the DAL Madagascar leaves here on Thursday, perhaps bound for Madagascar. This is of course great news, but…

Day 306: The Reunion in Réunion

Post Author:Graham
Post published:17/11/2009
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02.11.09: Finally free of the good ship Trochetia (at least for a while) I made my way from La Port to St. Denis and caught the number 6 bus towards…

Day 303: Et Voila!

Post Author:Graham
Post published:30/10/2009
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30.10.09: The Trochetia is great. It makes me sick every time that I think of the Shissiwani II costing me a comparable sum of money for three nights of hell,…

Day 302: The Road Ahead

Post Author:Graham
Post published:29/10/2009
Post Category:Indian Ocean / Madagascar / Reunion / The Odyssey Expedition
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29.10.09: My entire route for The Odyssey is mapped out in my head and has been for years so I never bother looking at the route plan; but just for…