Today we spent the entire day at Embrun & watched the individual time trial.
This TDF is one big travelling circus, with lots of noise colour & exitement & a fantastic jovial, friendly atmosphere. It was great just being there
It was great to see all our heroes ride right past us. We had walked about a kilometre or more up the first hill climb to a nice shady view spot, with a picnic lunch, fruit & water & some nearby bush to pee in.Even though there are many thousands of people watching this event there is never a toilet of any sort, portaloo or otherwise. With each rider separated by 2 minutes, we were able to see & photograph all those people we have spent late nights watching over the last few years. The last to go was Chris Froome, the eventual winner of the day. Even though this was a hill climb section, the riders came past very quickly & you had to be quick to get a picture & as luck would have it my crappy camera has been playing up with the auto focus not working intermittently.
The day started clear & fine, but mid afternoon brought a large mountain summer thunder storm right on top of the mountain we were on. Luckily the rain headed north & we were left dry but when we got back to Briancon it had been teeming all afternoon & water was everywhere.
This TDF is one big travelling circus, with lots of noise colour & exitement & a fantastic jovial, friendly atmosphere. It was great just being there
It was great to see all our heroes ride right past us. We had walked about a kilometre or more up the first hill climb to a nice shady view spot, with a picnic lunch, fruit & water & some nearby bush to pee in.Even though there are many thousands of people watching this event there is never a toilet of any sort, portaloo or otherwise. With each rider separated by 2 minutes, we were able to see & photograph all those people we have spent late nights watching over the last few years. The last to go was Chris Froome, the eventual winner of the day. Even though this was a hill climb section, the riders came past very quickly & you had to be quick to get a picture & as luck would have it my crappy camera has been playing up with the auto focus not working intermittently.
Chris Froome, current race leader & this stage winner flys right past me.
We call him 'spiderman'. because he is all arms & legs.
Cadel Evens, not doing quite so well this year.
Yvonne taking aphoto of me, taking a photo of her.
Me taking a photo of Yvonne, taking a photo of me at exactly the same moment as the above photo.
The day started clear & fine, but mid afternoon brought a large mountain summer thunder storm right on top of the mountain we were on. Luckily the rain headed north & we were left dry but when we got back to Briancon it had been teeming all afternoon & water was everywhere.
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