Category: Favourites
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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 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 34 – 19th August 2018
ODO 3856km Location A mountainside on the track to Yaylapinar Weather 26-37 Overcast with showers starting at lunch After leaving college, moving down to London, taking up a job at a dance music company I wanted to learn how to have fun. My peers from high school were all in their first year of university.…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 32 – 17th August 2018
ODO 3658km Location Kayadamlar Weather 28-34 Clouds building in the distance There are some nights when I don’t feel like writing. Tonight is one. Although I made a good distance after a late start and my two night in the hotel, I still have the tail end of the shits. Throughout the day I feel…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 30 – 14th August 2018
ODO 3551km Location Küloü Weather 25-37 Overnight I was a mess. I went to the toilet 3/4 times in the night and had no consistent sleep. From 9pm to 7am I lay on a thorn deflated air mattress listening to my intestines churn. By the morning I couldn’t even think of riding far. I pushed…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 28 – 12th August 2018
ODO 3443km Location Mine south of Bursa Weather 26-36 Clear Istanbul was moody and hot as I left the hostel at 6:45am. Low grey cloud hung over the fishing district. Deciding to rain before changing its mind and blowing out over the Bosporus. The ferry was supposed to leave at 7:30am so I arrived ready…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 25 – 7th August 2018
ODO 3148km Location Just outside Havsa Weather 25-40 Hotter down in the lowlands I got a nice early night at Matts camping spot – avoiding the mosquitoes by getting in my bivi early. At 4am the next day I was woken by a cockerels call. Until then I’d never realise what a perfect Torture device…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 23 – 5th August 2018
ODO 2911km Location Bike Hostel, Plovdiv Weather 20-34 Sunny all day After picking a hilltop campsite with big views over rolling deciduous trees interspersed with neat rows of regimented conifers we settled in. I took stove duty which began spitting and sputtering as it struggled to cook 500g of pasta for three. Matt and Jelle…
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Ben Around the World Diary – 7th June 2018
ODO 2580km Location Sumadijski, Serbia Weather 25-37℃ Hot Feelings Hit the wall and broke through it [post_gallery] Weather you’ve run a marathon or been made to lap the field as a high school punishment, everyone has an experience of hitting the wall. Your tells your body to move and your body resists. Eyes loose focus. Usual…
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Ben Around the World Diary – 6th June 2018
ODO 2447km Location East of Kragujevac, Serbia Weather 25-37 sunny with encroaching thunderstorm Feelings Happy – Welcomed to Serbia [post_gallery] The last couple of days have brought the worst roads, the most erratic drivers of the trip so far and 37 degrees in the shade for the majority of the hours of sun. Yet I’ve…