Tag: le tour

  • Lausanne to Lamoura

    Lausanne to Lamoura

    Tour de France – Stage 8 – 2017

    A couple of years ago I was fortunate to be in the same country as The Tour de France at the same time. We were in Belgium, staying a short train ride away from where the race would wind through a small town and up a decent hill. The plan then was to catch a train and walk up the hill.

    That day didn’t go exactly to plan, with the race being neutralised after a number of crashes.

    The plan this year was to rent a car from Lausanne and just pop over the border into France and see the race not too far from the end of the stage. That was about all the planning I did.

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  • Côte de Bohissau

    Côte de Bohissau

    When traveling I have a bad habit of arriving in, or leaving from, a country within days of a major sporting event. One year I think I missed two Grand Prix races in a month. When we were in Singapore last the grandstands for the Grand Prix were still up, and dad managed to stand in some wet concrete where they were repairing the road.

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