Month: September 2018
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 44 – 17th September 2018
ODO 5078km Location Up a mountain near Kasaplar Weather 11-26 gusty headwind As I broke through the 5000km mark the mountains began. Just as they did with approaching Istanbul. Small undulations in the road. 20m up. 20m down. Then they grew to sweeping mountain climbs as the wind picked up to resist and buffer my…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 43 – 16th September 2018
ODO 4942km Location Sivas Weather 5-26 I slept beautifully thanks to a new set of earplugs I bought to drown out the snores of the hostel room in Göreme. Waking a little before sunrise to pack up quickly and head back onto the Sunday highway. Quieter than the day before. 100km rolled by before lunch…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 42 – 15th September 2018
ODO 4819km Location Saniglan Weather 15-26 Tailwind At the Cappadocia hostel I met a guy called Len who’s currently living in Mumbai and works for a company that owns some of those new top level domain names. Like .sucks and .limousine (his company owns more reputable ones than that but you get the picture). Technology…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 41 – 13th September 2018
ODO 4675km Location Göreme Weather 11-29 Windy! I was looking forward to flying in a balloon. As a kid I would be riding a scooter down the lane or playing with toy planes in the garden on a Sunday afternoon you’d become aware of a chatter coming from above. Looking up to the sound of…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 40 – 12th September 2018
ODO 4569km Location 10km short of Askaray Weather 8-25 Clear and bright. It happened. Rolling out of my muddy campsite in a field exhausted from a bad damp night I noticed my bike was riding badly. I could feel every bump on the muddy trail. There it was. My first puncture of the whole trip.…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 39 – 11th September 2018
ODO 4450km Location A remote Turkish Plateau Weather 11-22 Avoiding showers As the day before I began the day with a climb and decent onto another plateau basin. This time, cold from my morning pre sunrise routine, I put on a playlist my friend Flick has made me for my trip. The small speaker of…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 38 – 10th September 2018
ODO 4314km Location Bagkonak Weather 15-25 Strong head wind I spent another day following the winding D330 highway as I picked across the plateaus and turned south to skirt the banks of a deep blue lake. The banks sitting at 1000m above sea level themselves. The road climbing and descending gradually with the features of…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 37 – 9th September 2018
ODO 4185km Location Burdur Weather 14-25 narrowly avoided showers in the afternoon After a restless night, woken by nearby explosions from marble mining and grunts of frolicking wild boar I begrudgingly crawled from my damp tent. I had no real appetite and a banging headache. Regardless I packed up my kit and wheeled my bike…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 36 – 8th September 2018
ODO 4056 Location Çameli Weather 18-29 showers in the afternoon I left this morning, setting my alarm for 6am, but being awoken at five by the call to prayer from the mosque and the local chickens. I checked the bike and kit before rearranging the room and desk back to where the were when I…
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Why I’m Sharing My Video Diaries
Some of my grandfathers most cherished positions are his war diaries. A collection of notes from day to day life as a young man part of a world in conflict. Written with the neat and in precise writing and phrases of a future architect. As I cycle I miss my family. For my grandfather his…