About

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Hello there! I’m British adventurer, director, writer and activist Graham Hughes.

I’m the first person to visit every country in the world without flying.

Less than a year after finishing The Odyssey Expedition, I won Jinja Island on an American survival show.

Yes, really!

Check Out The Jinja Island Blog

New York, New York

Arriving at JFK around 8pm local time, I was greeted at the airport, for the first time in my life, by a guy holding a sign with my name on it. Well, almost – he’d missed the second ‘h’ in Hughes. But it’s the thought that counts. Yes indeedy, your humble narrator here got Lincoln’d all the way to Manhattan, courtesy of CBS.

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The High Life

I walked through Greenwich Village, imbibing the sights and sounds and all the crap that travel memoirists are supposed to bang on about. New York is pretty much the place it is in all the movies and needs little in the way of introduction. Everyone you meet is from another corner of the world, which is fun for me – I can say I’ve been to that particular corner and it was great!

Although one day I’ll meet somebody from Greenland or Pitcairn Island and the wheels will come off that particular parade.

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(Couch) Surf’s Up!

August 2014 August came around as it invariably does. Lots of thunderstorms but also some amazingly sunny days. Not one for hiding my light under

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I Will Make it Legal

Wednesday 26th March 2014 Normally when buying or selling property you need your own lawyer to talk to the other party’s lawyer (at a cost

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