Helen leaves for her six week bicycle tour of the Ural Mountains on the 10th of June. Here is a Wikipedia Article on the Urals.

See the Itinerary and learn more about Helen's Tour

Helen's Six-week tour from St. Petersburg to Instanbul: Read Blogs here.

She is traveling with ExpditionsPlus. They have provided the following maps and discussion of the area she will be riding through. Look for more on this page as Helen plans to give me the link where the tour will be posting pictures and notes.

ExpeditionsPlus: This essay is a brief primer on the physical geography of Europe. This is the stage setting on which the history of Europe was performed. Of course it oversimplifies the geography of Europe immensely as each "physiographic region" that I mention below can be further dissected and described just as each country could be separately analyzed. This is a start, though, to give you an overview of the essence of Europe. >