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!

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Trolling Kanye

Glastonbury 2015 Back in Blighty, the first thing I did was catch up with my Liverpool family and friends who I hadn’t seen in far

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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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