Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Arrivée: Van Garderen, Brajkovic, Schleck, Gallopin, Roche, Van Den Broeck
Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Arrivée: Sagan, Kashechkin, Cancellara, Sörensen, Velits, Rogers, Izaguirre Insausti, Coppel, Leipheimer
Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Arrivée: O'Grady, Hincapie, Kessiakoff, Vichot, Kiserlovski (being overhauled by), Peraud, Szmyd, Casar
Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Arrivée: Other sights from on and around the time trial finishing straight.
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: Legend Jens Voigt doesn't seem to understand it's a TT & there's no-one behind to put the pain on! 
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: Velits, Fofonov (with no back-up & next rider in his team due almost 20 minutes later!), Minard
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: Henderson, who joked via Twitter about not trying too hard was certainly the one smiling most here!
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: Levarlet, De Kort, Knees, Trofimov, Morkov, Devenyns, Boeckmans, Popovych, Kern, Marzano
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: As you'd expect from a legend like Johnny Hoogerland... he was up here like a rocket!
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: Roelandts, Petacchi, Zingle, Impey, Kiryienka, Perez Moreno, Bak, Roy
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: Martin, world TT champ looks like he knows how to suffer, but even he though is on the inner ring here!
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: Quinziato, Ruijgh, Lund, Kadri, Pineau, Grabsch, Cummings
Monday 9 July 2012
On the climb: Other things snapped in the 2 minute time gaps between riders. And yes - this climb was steep!
Monday 9 July 2012
Saw the start, now on the 14% section of #TdF TT course. Glad these guys look to be finding it as hard as I did yesterday! #SweatPouring
Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Départ: Cavendish, Gretsch, Van Hummel, Ladagnous, Oss, Pineau, Eisel, Westra
Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Départ: Farrar, Timmer, Lemoine, Renshaw, LL Sanchez, Hutarovich, Lloyd
Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Départ: Have to include a few of the caravan, but think was more impressed with the Italians at the Giro.
Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Départ: Other random stuff. Note the trend in team busses, everything including...
Monday 9 July 2012
Stage 9 Départ: TT Bling! And some more standard stuff - what is that doing here? Well - it is a bike show, right?
Monday 9 July 2012
5:30am local time. Can try for another hour's sleep or get up & not worry so much about getting good place on course. Hmm. #TdF live day! 
Sunday 8 July 2012
Oil companies who claim to be clean 'energy' players yet still cause disasters like Deepwater Horizon/Oil Sands: You're not kidding anyone!
Sunday 8 July 2012
@inrng Sky should try and eliminate Cav on these hills... then he can go rest up for the Olympics
Sunday 8 July 2012
@CyclingCentral Have you noticed that the CNN F1 show is using the same title music as you guys? #RandomFactsFromAHotelRoom
Saturday 7 July 2012
These birds seem to be all over rural France. Here hunting mice spooked by tractor in a field next to our lunch stop.
Saturday 7 July 2012
Macro fun in a field of sunflowers. Very, very pleasing
Saturday 7 July 2012
When in France... in summer... it just had to be done. Messing about in a field of sunflowers of course!
Saturday 7 July 2012
Picking up some goodies for a picnic lunch in Bourbon-Lancy. Plus a last look around before we leave. Nice place.
Saturday 7 July 2012
Our hotel here is right by a small lake. Very pretty spot and very nice for an early morning stroll before breakfast.
Friday 6 July 2012
Wow! OK, I take it back about Sagan. Just out-sprinted Greipel & Goss (& trains) on the flat. And even a more normal celebration. Chapeau!
Friday 6 July 2012
@inrng Close, watching from hotel bed after nice spin this morning BTW, pavé/strade bianche a lottery? Seems plenty of crashes without!
Thursday 5 July 2012
OMG... restaurant this eve has run out of tart! Had to chase perfect duck in honey sauce down with some kind of chocolate pudding thing 
Thursday 5 July 2012
Le Relais Fleuri in Toulon sur Allier: Simple yet amazing lunch. Stew and potatoes, meat that melts in the mouth. Oh, and tart for desert
Thursday 5 July 2012
Leaving region of Auvergne. We like cheese, but they love it here! Was sweating it out on the ride yesterday Wonder what's in store next?
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Seems latest moronic FB trend is posting with a caption, "Hit like if..." I know what 'like' is for thanks, and it's not posts like that!
Wednesday 4 July 2012
French #TdF coverage break: nice ad. asking viewers to join in with their local bike club. All disciplines included: road, MTB, BMX, etc.
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Afternoon at Lac Chambon, then back again for dinner & walk after. Funny having raclette in summer, & with no heater.
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Just arrived in Murol. Beautiful little hotel, very nice room. #TdF in HD! Riding around here looks great, best have a good meal tonight!
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Crossing Col de la Croix-Morand, looking East. Down there somewhere is Murol, where we'll spend a couple of nights.
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Beautiful spot for a picnic. Carrying your own food is the best way to guarantee finding lunch in countryside France!
Monday 2 July 2012
Evening picnic by le Plan d'Eau de Mialet (Mialet dam). Took a random road in search of a quiet spot and voilà!
Monday 2 July 2012
French TV 1962 TdF footage: Moto pillion sipping alcohol & passing to driver! Riders taking beer from cafés & washing in fountains. Great
Monday 2 July 2012
Hey Sagan, not so easy against true sprinters when you have to work is it? Few more like that and you can kiss green goodbye! #WheelSucker
Monday 2 July 2012
Stumbled across aftermath of what we discovered was La Félibrée in Piégut Pluviers. Looks like it was some party!
Monday 2 July 2012
Morning visit to the lovely little village of Brantôme. Then lunch overlooking the river (for both us & the ducks)
Sunday 1 July 2012
Couldn't find anywhere open to eat this eve, but did find pizza van & field with views to sit in. Good for us, bad for Euro-zone recovery
Sunday 1 July 2012
Back from Château de Hautefort in time for last hour of the TdF. French video, English sound. Got to love being in the correct time zone
Sunday 1 July 2012
Château de Hautefort: beautiful gardens and not so scary dungeons. The accommodation wasn't bad either
Sunday 1 July 2012
Very nice lunch at Auberge du Parc, Hautefort. Perch wrapped in some crispy pastry stuff and other goodies. Yum! 
Sunday 1 July 2012
This is Château de Jumilhac. Nice, but just took these pics in passing on the way to the next one. Spoilt for choice!
Saturday 30 June 2012
Wow... my ankle feels a whole lot better after some Tramadol Hydrochloride and a couple of Leffe Blonde! Thank you and goodnight!