Will you be going to watch the Tour??

berliner
berliner Posts: 340
edited July 2009 in The bottom bracket
I will be at the Vertbier and Grand-Saint-Bernard climb, hopefully the Annecy time trial.

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  • stabilised
    stabilised Posts: 70
    Turned 40 yesterday - boooooooo.

    Brother has sent as present a weekend for self and wife in Paris on the closing weekend of the tour, with hotel 7 minutes walk from Champs Elysee - hoorayyyyyyyy.

    Apart from the obvious 'get up at 3.00am and sit at the side of the road for 12 hours' (which wife won't go with), are there any suggestions on where/how to get some sort of view of the action on the final day?

    I've been to watch in the alps in the past (find a smaller climb and you can get there forty minutes before they are due and be right on the road side as they pass, I found), but this will be my first time at the finish.

    Looking forward to Cav in Green hitting the front with one hundred metres to go!
  • bulldicker
    bulldicker Posts: 61
    im going, staying in doussard which is the first time check on the annecy time trial. will attempt to get to a hill the day before, le grand bonard? if the family are up for that.
  • mask of sanity
    mask of sanity Posts: 610
    Is there much TV coverage of it? On freeview that is! :?
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    1) Col de la Colombiere ~ Stage 17 to Le Grand Bornand

    2) Stage 18 Annecy TT

    3) Stage 20 to Mont Ventoux :D
  • nolance
    nolance Posts: 79
    I'm there from Sunday 19 through till 26 and am going to Annecy,Ventoux and a couple of others down that way.Can't wait
  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    stabilised wrote:
    Turned 40 yesterday - boooooooo.

    Brother has sent as present a weekend for self and wife in Paris on the closing weekend of the tour, with hotel 7 minutes walk from Champs Elysee - hoorayyyyyyyy.

    Apart from the obvious 'get up at 3.00am and sit at the side of the road for 12 hours' (which wife won't go with), are there any suggestions on where/how to get some sort of view of the action on the final day?

    I've been to watch in the alps in the past (find a smaller climb and you can get there forty minutes before they are due and be right on the road side as they pass, I found), but this will be my first time at the finish.

    Looking forward to Cav in Green hitting the front with one hundred metres to go!

    Find anything you can use to stand on to give you a view over the crowds. Ask at your hotel if they have any plastic beer crates. A small set of of steps is best, but can't imagine you'd get away with them as hand luggage on BA :wink:

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