Author Archive | Jo Morgan

Well another year has been counted off, and it was done in style. a forest home in central Russia, Tambov to be exact. We have named this towns biking group as ‘hosts of the year”, what a feast and such great company and entertainment on the 4 wheeler bikes too. I left with a birthday […]

Station art is at least a days entertainment in Moscow—— for just a few rubles you can travel the Metro stations and puruse the wonderfulmarble works, intricate mosaics, light fittings to diefor and get a lesson in Russian history at the same time. Don’t worry about getting lost aswhen you havehad enough there is always […]

A lot has happened since I last wrote. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were an eyeopener and the rate of change since they have left the ranks of the Russian bloc is huge.  Riga ( Capital of Latvia) in particular left me wanting to party and promenade for a lot longer, wonderful old decorative buildings, tree […]

Hi All, We are sitting in a gorgeous town Vijandi in Estonia, It seems like Arrowtown, lovely old oak trees and cobbled streets. A big room cost $50 NZ. Today a few of us went for a ride in a “bog” National Park. Really high water table and lots of flooding, deep moss under the […]

We made a good choice when we heard about the traffic and time to take bikes to central accommodation and selected a hotel on the outskirts. It still took an hour to do the last 25 km. Bikes parked under the watchful eye of “muscle bound” Mr Security. The hotel prices here are huge, but […]

The ancient trolleys cruise along with the more modern ones in Murmansk. This surely must be the most Northern trolley route in the world. 10 rubles each (about 50cents) to the conductor got Gareth and me a ride to the terminal of route 3 and towards the end in the residential streets our teeth were […]

Have woken to a glorious sunny day, a couple of hundred km to get to the top of Europe (Nordkapp) and further North than we have had our bikes before. Big day yesterday means a leisurely start today, so I sit in bed looking out at a  blue fjiord with snow clad hills and the […]

We seem to have been travelling through Norway for ages and first thing this morning we will pass the Arctic Circle with another slow1200 km to go before we get to the top of the country (Nordkapp). Our favourite Norwegian, Lise, who lived with us for a while when studying in Wellington has been missed […]

When we were leaving Reykjavik in Iceland we had a huge bag of fresh cod that we hadn’t been able to eat. Being of a frugal nature I was looking for someone who might like it, waste not want not. So I met Anna, an older lady stooped, delivering the local papers and asked her […]

I woke today with the smell of bacon and eggs wafting from the kitchen, Tony was doing our breakfast. Table service was provided by Roger and coffee by Phil. Gareth was doing the reading of what’s on in the capital of Iceland. Aren’t I the luckiest girl in the world having such a group of […]