Ben Goldsworthy
Salt coast, foul wind Old ghosts, scrap tin Leaves, rain Leaves, rainKae Tempest, Salt Coast I’m now back in the UK, and my travelling days are over, for now. Your browser doesn't support embedded video, view the video here. Video by the author The last ten months...
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That’s American power.My uncle, as a fighter jet loudly flew past My journey began in the US, and it would end in the US; planned trans-Atlantic family trips had served as the start and end points of the trip from its inception. After ten months of tropics, showering out of buckets and remote...
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I never use the usted form, it’s against my principles as an anarchist.CELMRAZ student Mexico was my final stop before leaving Latin America, and the end of the solo part of my solo trip. Over the roughly seven weeks I spent there I saw the widest variation of any location on the trip: I had...
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Guatemala had always been on my list of destinations, and Honduras found its way there back in January. With a few weeks between my return from Cuba and when I was due to me in Mexico, I paid a relatively short visit to each. Costa Rica ¶ It was my third time passing through San José—its...
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We Nicaraguans have many dictators. Then we kill them. León walking tour guide My lengthy excursion across Panama now over, it was time to head all the way back across the Central American isthmus and beyond. I was expected in Nicaragua in about a couple week’s time, and after deciding against a...
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But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley Robert Burns, To a Mouse I can’t say I’ve spent much of my life thinking about Panama; my knowledge of the place has generally been limited to the Canal, the Panama Papers and...
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Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warshipOscar Arias Sánchez, Nobel lecture I’ve long wanted to visit Costa Rica, ever since learning that it was one of only a handful of countries in the world to not have a standing army. This, along with...
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Words like deserted and desolate might be what spring to mind when we think of the desert. I certainly had no idea of the incredible level of biodiversity in the Sonoran desert; a landscape teeming with life, in spite of the brutal heat, as well as the lack of rain, which come in great torrents...
Ben Goldsworthy
Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and the community? Let your life speak. #27, Advices & Queries It’s been a long, grim past couple of years and I’ve been yearning for a major life...
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The first Europespedition was pretty much my first self-organised experience of travel and, for a so-called Europespedition, it only actually visited one country: me and some school friends visited Amsterdam (and Noordwijk) before heading off to begin our respective university studies, and things...
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From Che Guevara to the Hell’s Angels, the association between motorcycles and (often masculine) freedom is a long-standing one. Who doesn’t fantasise about abandoning their responsibilities and riding off into the sunset as far as their two wheels will take them? I’m not immune to such a draw...
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Don’t mention the war! Basil Fawlty, The Germans (S01E06, Fawlty Towers) This summer, I spent a couple weeks traipsing across the small Balkan nation of Serbia, with the aim of earning an Explorer Belt. My team of four—me, Jack, Josh and Eve, along with our (starting) mentor Harriet (a.k.a. Ms...
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A friend and I went to Ukraine for a week. Here’s what happened. Day 1 ¶ We walked out of the airport and were looking for the train to Kiev when a guy called us over and told us to get in his van for a ₴100 (~£3) ride to Kiev. There were a few other people in there so we figured why not and...
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Part I ¶ I like Big Nights Out (you know I do), but festivals – the national Big Weekends Out – are a disaster for me. I’ve never had a good experience, be it during the one day I spent at V Festival 2000 (highlight: Foo Fighters), a weekend at Reading 2006 (highlight: Larrikin Love) or...
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Truck Driver [in German] Berlin! I also sexually assaulted a horse in Berlin. Scott He's going to Berlin. Jamie Awesome. Truck Driver [in German] Nowhere near Berlin. Scott All right, come on, let's go. Eurotrip Another year, another Eurotrip — LUECS’ annual continental jaunt has been and...
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Gas, ass or grass; no-one rides for free. Hitching proverb Between 18:00 on Nov 14 and 6:00 on Nov 16, I participated in Jailbreak with a uni bloc kmate. What is Jailbreak? From the website of the campus charity we did it for, Enactus (a charity that we rapidly found out nobody outside of the...
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Government of the Netherlands Part 1 ¶ When I am with you I shall keep a diary […] I do not suppose there will be much of interest to other people, but it is not intended for them. […] I shall try to do what I see lady journalists do, interviewing and writing descriptions and trying to...