Category: Ben Around the World
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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 – 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…
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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 – 4th June 2018
ODO 2179km Location Serbia Weather 22-33℃ Hot Feelings Happy after a day of friendly encounters [post_gallery] After a couple of days in Croatia I realised that standing still is better than walking to keep mosquitoes off you. The problem with walking is you attract new followers and kick up others from the grass until you…
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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…
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Ben Around the World Diary – 2nd June 2018
ODO 1838km Location just inside the Croatian boarder Weather broken cloud with storm breaking just as I crossed the Slovenian border Feelings Utter exhaustion in the morning but with a few power naps across the day I felt better by the afternoon [post_gallery] I camped across the other side of a sketchy wooden bridge. I was…
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Ben Around the World Diary – 1st June 2018
ODO 1592km Location 10km north of Graz Weather 17-20 Overcast with rain showers throughout the day Feelings High on the morning but exhausted after the crash. [post_gallery] I slept a full hour through my alarm having already gone to bed an hour earlier the night before. I really needed the sleep! In the morning I completed…
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Ben Around the World Diary – 31st May 2018
ODO 1566km Location Trieben, Austria Weather Thunder Showers Feelings High at climbing a mountain bike route followed by an afternoon lul. In the morning I descended down to the lake. Clear alpine blue right to the bottom. An unreal shade of turquoise. I weaved through the campsites to find the ferry. €3 for an Adult,…