| Event type: | Socials and Events |
| Date: | Saturday 23rd January 2027 |
| Time: | 10:00 am |
| Venue: | Penn Room, Friends Meeting House |
| Cost: | Free (refreshments available) |
| Booking: | Note that booking is required. |
Speaker: Peter Morrall
Dr Peter Morrall’s academic background is medical sociology. He is a former Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, and Tutor at Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of York. He presently is a motorcycle (mis)adventurer. Peter's misadventures include riding from York to Russia, the Arctic Circle (twice), Marrakesh, Greece (twice), Istanbul, and Troy. He has also ridden in Central America, South America (in the Amazon and Andes), the USA, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Caucus Mountains, and across Australia east to west and north to south. In 2026 he rode from Tbilisi in Georgia, through Armenia, down to the Iranian border and back to Tbilisi. Some of these trips have involved considerable off-road riding. They have also involved manifold ineptitudes and multiple accidents.
Peter's international journeying started in 1979 with an overland trip from London to Delhi via Iran during the Islamic revolution, and via Baluchistan to avoid the impending invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets, before then travelling up to Kashmir and on to Nepal.
In this talk Peter will not only highlight the hazards he has experienced on these journeys but the copious kindnesses offered by strangers.