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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…