Category: Daily Diary
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Introducing Aux Beta
Todays the day the Aux team and I have been working towards for months now, Beta launch day! We’re excited for you to try out this first step in our journey to create the ultimate platform to support and grow music creators’ careers. Whether you’re just getting started or you’re established in your field we’re…
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My Ultimate Bike Packing and Cycle Touring Kit List – Public Spreadsheet
In my recent video series, I went through my kit list for short and long term cycle touring and bike packing trips. Watch the videos over on Youtube and below. As I mentioned in the video, I’ve published my public kit list spreadsheet I used before leaving for the trip. It includes kit I purchased,…
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The New SendMusic App
After nine months of work, starting all the way back in Laos, SendMusic is now available on the App Store: Download on the App Store SendMusic is the top of my list when it comes to 7 startups projects. I joined up with Kemal right at the start of my cycling journey and from a…
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Coronavirus – Day 182/183 – 15 March 2020
– ODO-22787-22850km – Location- London, United Kingdom After a morning cycling as normal in the extreme Indonesia heat, my plans changed drastically. I spoke to my partner Naomi back in England and realised that the Coronavirus situation was becoming grave. I’d been watching it closely since January when I flew back to Bangkok and cycled…
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South of the Equator – Day 181 – 15 March 2020
– ODO-22631-22787km – Location- Tegal, Indonesia – Weather- 26-37 I realised today for the first time that I crossed the equator. On my ferry from Singapore to Jakarta a couple of weeks ago, while I’ll slept in my bunk, I made it to the other half of the globe almost two years since leaving home.…
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Cycling Across Java – Day 180 – 14 March 2020
– ODO- 22491-22631km – Location- Pamanukan, Indonesia – Weather- 27-38 Today was my first day if my ride across the Indonesian island of Java. After crossing the city from my ferry I was ready for the same crazy roads and I wasn’t disappointed. I left at 4 am to cross central Jakarta before the major…
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32 Hour PELNI Ferry from Singapore to Jakarta Ben Around the World Diary – Day 178/179 – 26th/27th February 2020
– ODO- 22415-22491km – Location- West Jakarta – Weather- 28-32 and humid on the ocean, some rain on the morning of the 27th As part of cycling around the world, I try to fly as little as possible. After cycling through Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and into Singapore I reached the end of the…
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Avoiding Coronavirus Lockdown in Indonesia – My Flight for COVID-19 2020 Cycle Touring Diary
The last 48 hours have been an epic journey travelling back from small-town Indonesia with my bicycle and all my kit. Here’s how and I why I came back early from my round the world bikepacking trip. I still have 9 months worth of footage to edit from the last year on the road! Subscribe…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 177 – 18th February 2020
– ODO- 22311-22415km – Location- Atlantis Pod Hotel Bugis, Singapore – Weather- 28-34 showers Before I left for this trip I’d rarely travelled beyond Europe and the US. I was worried about taking remote border crossings for the first time. Quickly though, I’d got used to the casual nature of most Asian borders. Several times…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 176 – 17th February 2020
– ODO- 22162-22311km – Location- Simpang Renggam, Malaysia – Weather- 31-36 shower in the morning I must have been through a hundred blank hotel rooms by now. Cheap Malaysian hotels seem to be exclusively windowless. Internal white cubes with zero natural light and zero ventilation, which is made even worse by the fact that you’re…