Tag: Ben Around The World
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 58 – 7th January 2019
ODO: 7049-7275 – 100 Miles! Location: Gokarna, India Weather: 12-33 Clear and Hot When I work to a deadline I get into a zone where I’m thinking very little about what I’m doing. I know I have to do it and I get on with it. That’s helped me a great deal in the weekend up…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 57 – 23th November 2018
ODO: 6624km Location: Bootstart Co-living Space, Goa, India Weather: 24-35 Light clouds breaking by 10am Boostart in Mandrem is a huge four story building with rows of dorms and private rooms linking from between the white walls and walkways. On a mid level terrace there’s a small pool and working your way to the roof…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 56 – 22th November 2018
ODO: 6510km Location The Forest India Weather: 23-36 Clear and hot Last night was the night I met Shridhar. I’ve made a habit of stopping for a selfie only when I was planning to stop anyway. For a drink or snack or a full lunch. Otherwise, I’d end up never making progress at all. For…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 54 – 20th November 2018
ODO: 6345km Location: between Khed and Chiplun Weather: 24-30 Overcast and light rain. Humid After the oppressive heat of yesterday’s midday sun, the blanket of cloud that built from the south is like dipping your bare feet into a stream after a long days hiking. With occasional light drizzle bringing up the humidity my morning…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 53 – 19th November 2018
ODO: 6229 Location: Raigarh Weather: 29-36 Dusty and polluted My next adventure on the bike has come after another long break working out of co-working spaces. I was apprehensive leaving from the dirty, smelly and polluted streets of Mumbai. A memory of my second ever cycle trip across France. Stepping off the Eurostar train and…
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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…
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I Almost Didn’t Make the Start Line
“It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this task, and that I was uniquely equipped to pursue this quest. It was a perfect collision of personality, past experience, purpose, and timing.” ― Roz Savage, Stop Drifting, Start Rowing. My meticulous plan…
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Ben Around the World Diary – 8th June 2018
ODO 2721km Location Sofia, Bulgaria Weather 21-35℃ Clear Feelings Elated to finish the first leg [post_gallery] I woke to the sun rising over the same stunning view down 500m to Nis. What was a glinting carpet of lights last night was now covered in a thin layer of orange haze – an inversion, trapping the…
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Ben Around the World Diary – 5th June 2018
ODO 2310km Location Belgrade, Serbia Weather 26-37℃ – Hot Feelings Happy and clean [post_gallery] It’s 9am and 32 degrees as I change my 200 kuna into 3200 dinar at a small roadside exchange on the outskirts of NoviSad. I’ve had a terrible nights sleep after pitching my tent the wrong way. You didn’t know there…
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Ben Around the World Diary – 3rd June 2018
ODO 2010km Location Sopje Croatia Weather 25-33℃ Sunny with thunder and hail showers Feelings Different and tired [post_gallery] There are certain thing you really only notice with traveling at the speed of a bike. Over the last two weeks I’ve been aiming to make camp by 8:30pm and get up at 7am to be on…