Le Tour de Femmes, race chat
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Stage 5 looks like you typical transition stage. It's the longest stage of the race, with a couple of small climbs thrown in, but it's real purposes is to take the riders to the Vosges, for the race's big finale.
Bar de Luc.
Seeded redcurrant jam with goose feather
The gastronomic speciality of Bar-le-Duc is the seeded redcurrant jam with goose feather, known as "Bar caviar". The first mention of this recipe dates back to 1344 and its fame quickly spread to bourgeois and aristocratic circles. Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland compared the jam to "a ray of sunshine in a jar". Alfred Hitchcock would only stay in hotels that served it for breakfast.
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
SAINT DIÉ DES VOSGES AND CYCLING
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges has already seen some of the biggest names in the women’s peloton in the Route de France in 2010. Dutch rider Marianne Vos won the race ahead of her compatriot Annemiek Van Vleuten and German rider Judith Arndt. Between them, it amounted to eight world champion titles between them, on the road or in time trials... Former cyclo-cross specialist Nadia Triquet-Claude is also a native of Saint-Dié.
Toffailles
Toffailles are stewed potatoes. This Vosges speciality, which can be found almost everywhere in farm inns and mountain restaurants, is made from potatoes, onions and bacon, the basic ingredients of mountain cooking.
They represent a very rural tradition, the peasants used to cook the toffailles slowly in a casserole placed on the hearth, while they went to do their work in the fields. When they returned, the meal was ready to be served.
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Over the years for different reasons I've spent many a good few (boring) hours in St. Die, and it is not a favourite place of mine - except that the Vosges are so close. And that there, coming from the east, you find Hypemarche again, after there being no large supermarkets in the hills of the Vosges.
Part of the reason for my dislike is that, after the Nazis flattened the town in 1944, the rebuild, done in the 1950s, very much followed Le Corbusier's (simply-said) 'rectangular concrete blocks with perhaps a minor embellishment' idea, a style of architecture which I like to think has now been abandoned.
The cathedral, from centuries ago, of red sandstone, is still there, though, and good.
If you don't find the famous jam at Bar de Luc, there is a visitable jam factory just outside St. Die, with its own small jam museum. I recommend this jam, made with local berries, but to eat with cheese (or at least as much with cheese as on jam butties).
I would guess tomorrow might be a sprint finish, but it is also the last real chance for a break of moderate riders to win a stage, so I am hoping that will be the case, the favourites reserving energy for the following two stages.
Although Vos may behave differently, as likely to be dropped in the last two hilly stages, so needing to build-up her lead in advance.0 -
I mean, to I'm not saying she looked unhappy, but it's the first time I've seen s DS unplug their radio
I can see it, fwiw. Although it only calls it a presumed victory. Consider it now a postsumed one, anyway.ddraver said:0 -
Do they tow weibes all the way to die or get numbers up the road ...I wish we saw the stage start on some of these"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Watched the stage on catchup - Garcia had a bit of a day of it, didn't she?0
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Yes .,kingstongraham said:Watched the stage on catchup - Garcia had a bit of a day of it, didn't she?
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4 riders with 3 mins up the road... Looks a bit of a snooze for a while"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Head wind ...long day"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Possibly a good thing they're showing less than half of it today...mididoctors said:Head wind ...long day
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Seem to have mistakenly had my snooze pre live coverage. That's probably the product of a 3am start for a 7.30 am flight though.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0
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I am afraid this stage is going to be like watching paint dry...."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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They've just ploughed through red traffic lights at the sprint banner!
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EVERYONE HAS CRASHED"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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bloody hell, that was like a house of cards!0
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C O L L E C T E D"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Yeah, literally everybody"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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Ah was actually half way back but pretty much every rider behind went down. Must be nearly 50 riders!0
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Bloody hell that's aa right old tangle. Only just switched on. What happened?
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30-40 riders in a mass tumble0
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It's like spillikins with riders - oeveryone struggling to life themselves off everyone else. Can't remember seeing a pile up like that for ages.0
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Norsgaard seems to have done a collarbone. Most others seem OK but untangling the bikes is tricky.
One of the biggest pile ups I've seen.0 -
Norsgaard looks out with a shoulder/neck? injury0
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AvV big domestique ..norsgard ...collar bone?"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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LITERALLY HALF OF EVERYONE CRASHED"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Bugger.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0
