Category: Daily Diary

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 39 – 11th September 2018

    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…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 38 – 10th September 2018

    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…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 37 – 9th September 2018

    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…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 36 – 8th September 2018

    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…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 35 – 20th August 2018

    Ben Around the World Diary – Day 35 – 20th August 2018

    ODO 3961 Location Oludeniz Weather 21-34 Humid by the coast My final campsite for this leg was the most stunning so far. A small forest track 1100m high overlooked a wide valley. The sun slipped in shafts through broken cloud picking out the blue crystal of a mosques minarets in a town laying in trees…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 34 – 19th August 2018

    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.…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 33 – 18th August 2018

    Ben Around the World Diary – Day 33 – 18th August 2018

    ODO 3751km Location Pamukkale Weather 28-37 in the valley Turkey is a fractal. However large or small the terrain the surface of the earth roles in a wavelike undulation of grass or mud or trees. I started the day at 900m but gradually descended all day. It’s days like these where you feel like you’re…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 32 – 17th August 2018

    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…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 31 – 16th August 2018

    Ben Around the World Diary – Day 31 – 16th August 2018

    ODO 3581km Location Otel Çerkin Simav Weather 25-35 After a full nights sleep fed from the convenient store the night before I woke to a heavy dew fall. While the temperature gets to 37 in the afternoon the valleys get pretty cold by the morning. The road eased up and flattened into a busy highway…

  • Ben Around the World Diary – Day 30 – 14th August 2018

    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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