Oooops, where are we this week? Round the world overland (well, not quite but not a bad attempt)

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We left England on a ferry at the start of July 2003, planning to travel overland to Cape Town. However, instead of turning right in Turkey, we went straight on and a year and a half later we had reached Singapore overland instead. Failing to find a bargain boat across the Pacific we hopped on a plane to Los Angeles. Route 66 took us to Chicago where we continued snow bound through Canada to New York. Then, as if we had left yesterday, we were heading back to England, circumnavigation complete.

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  Western to Eastern Europe in a heatwave   Halesworth, United Kingdom on Jul 8, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Through the Netherlands   Amsterdam, Netherlands on Jul 9, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Through Luxembourg   Luxembourg City, Luxembourg on Jul 10, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Absinthe and sausage   All over the place, Germany seemed to feature a lot, Germany on Jul 17, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Through Switzerland   Several, Switzerland on Jul 18, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Through Liechtenstein   Vaduz, Liechtenstein on Jul 19, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Through Austria   Vienna, Austria on Jul 20, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Loooong train   Hamburg, Germany on Jul 25, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Cheese, mostly   One minute we were up a mountain, the next in a boat, Denmark on Jul 26, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Through the Czech Republic   Prague, Tabor, Brno, Czech Republic on Aug 3, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Poland and thereabouts (so much booze and death)   Poland, and thereabouts, Poland on Aug 5, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Through Slovakia   Kosice, Trensin, Bratislava, Slovakia on Aug 6, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Through Hungary   Budapest, Hungary on Aug 11, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  The Croatian coastline in full splendour   Several good ones, some not so, Croatia on Aug 12, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Pizza please   Trieste, Italy on Aug 13, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Boats with scampi   Pula, Split, Dubrovnik, Croatia on Aug 14, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Dark and sharp mountains   Mostar, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on Aug 15, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  A dark city   Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro on Aug 16, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Meat and wine   Timiþoara, Cluj Cluj Napoça, Sighisoara, Brasov, Bucharest, Romania on Aug 17, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Russia hotel   Sofia, Bulgaria on Aug 18, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  English football   Skopje, Macedonia on Aug 19, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Rain, rain and a HUGE copy of Lord of the Rings   Pogradec, Gjirokaster, Albania on Aug 20, 2003 0 pictures 0 comments
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  The end of the letters?   Down through Albania, up through Greece, Greece on Aug 28, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Dawdling through Turkey   Istanbul, Konya, Goreme, Erzurum, Turkey on Sep 23, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Not having any cake and not eating it   Tehran, Iran on Oct 22, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Can people get any nicer?   Esfahan, Yazd, Kerman, Bam, Iran on Nov 11, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  A bus, and the stunning town of Peshawar   Quetta, Peshawar, Lahore, Pakistan on Nov 23, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  A change of pace   Goa, mostly, India on Dec 22, 2003 1 picture 0 comments
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  Some could accuse us of cynicism   In the mountains and on the beach, Sri Lanka on Jan 22, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  What an accosting in a public toilet can lead to   Madras, India on Feb 7, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Salty Sea Dogs   Andaman Islands, India on Feb 28, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Green lightning   Around the Sundurbans to Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh on Apr 5, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Our Path of Excess Leads to a Temple of Wisdom   A bit more of northern India, before off to Nepal, Nepal on Apr 26, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  China by duvet   Lhasa, China on Jun 30, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Wind roach and gooselips   Golmud, Chengdu, Kunming, China on Jul 12, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Thanks to Patrick Douglas (The Bowel Update Vol 2)   All over China, China on Jul 12, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  A spoonful of the purple monster   Hanoi and others to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Jul 27, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Hair tips from Cambodia   Phnom Penh, Stung Treng, Cambodia on Aug 29, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Boats, bombs, backgammon and Basques   Pakse, Salavan, Sekong, Savannakhet, Vientiane, Udomxai, Lao Peoples Dem Rep on Sep 15, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Thailand - Soy inglesa y qui ero aprender russ y e   Huay Xai border crossing from Laos into Thailand, Thailand on Oct 21, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Burmese days or Myanmar nights?   Kyaingtong, Inle Lake, Mandalay, Hsipaw, Pyin Oo Lwin, Bagan, Myanmar on Oct 24, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Full moon Thai-phoon   Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Kho Pha Ngan, Thailand on Nov 18, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Malaysia and the miracle of Germolene   Penang, Malaysia on Dec 4, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  There and back again, again   Khao Lak, Phuket, Phi Phi, Ko Tarutao, Thailand on Dec 8, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Nature to nature via Gotham City   Langkawi , Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, Taman Negara, Malaysia on Dec 23, 2004 1 picture 0 comments
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  Piercings but no chewing gum   Singapore, Singapore on Jan 20, 2005 1 picture 0 comments
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  Somewhere over the Pacific   Osaka, Japan on Feb 4, 2005 0 pictures 0 comments
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  Route 66 through Bagdad and Siberia   All those on Route 66, on Feb 5, 2005 1 picture 0 comments
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  No mousse but plenty of bubbles   Windsor, Leamington, Niagara Falls, Canada on Mar 5, 2005 1 picture 0 comments
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  New York snowbound and the end of the road....   New York, on Mar 9, 2005 1 picture 0 comments