Ben Around the World Diary – Day 52 – 26th September 2018
ODO 6128 Location Tbilisi, Georgia Weather 11-19 Storm gusts After a month on the road from Bulgaria through Turkey I came across the roof scape of Tbilisi suddenly. The road…
ODO 6128 Location Tbilisi, Georgia Weather 11-19 Storm gusts After a month on the road from Bulgaria through Turkey I came across the roof scape of Tbilisi suddenly. The road…
ODO 6018km Location Sakdrioni, Georgia Weather 8-22 Strong side becoming head wind I like Georgia already. On my climb up to the border I though over all of the experiences…
ODO 5877km Location Lake Cisor Weather 11-24 Today I've felt very down on Turkey and Kurds. After the stone throwing incident yesterday - this morning a young man shoots a…
ODO 5781km Location Digor Weather 11-29 Light showers Having stones thrown at you isn't fun. I'd just stopped st a small town petrol station to top up my water bottles…
ODO 5636 Location Dogubayazit Weather 8-25 Strong head wind The sight of the dark stone of Mount Ararat - the highest peak in Turkey - stirred in me a deep…
ODO 5488km Location Karabakac - just over the pass Weather 7-25 Up at 5am before sunset. On the road with the overnight lorry drivers and nobody else. Seeing the sunrise.…
ODO 5338 Location Ezisiye Weather 15-28 In turkey the earth takes on colours I've never seen. The earth rises thousands of metres between purple and black to the neon blue…
ODO 5228km Location Past Erzincan off the highway Weather 5-30 a contrast from mountain to valley What is it with men shouting out of vans trying to scare me? The…
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…
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…