Le Tour de France, and Yorkshire

[prendrelemick]

Nous somme reight excited pasque Le tour de France est ici dans Yorkshire. En fact le route allers past chez Prendrelemick on dimanche. Baucoup de my family est le camping dans notre field pour le weekend. Nous will mange a barbaque probably, et boire un few Newcastle browns.

Peut etre il-y-a some comerades du Lit netters coming to ave a regard?

[cacian]

haha a yorskhire frenchy??
I like to cycle I don't like watching cycling.
the invitation sounds real cool I live in Londres.
but...who knows :D

[Paulclem]

My French is pretty rusty, but I understood virtually everything you said Mick.

It'd be great to pop up and watch the Tour go past. Unfortunately I won't be able to do anything until the end of July.

I watch it every year on the internet though. Great stuff.

[Lokasenna]

I'll be in Leeds from next Monday for a few days for a conference - we have been warned to expect 'delays' because of the Le Tour...

I know almost nothing about it, given my distaste for organised sport generally. The last time it popped up on the news, some bloke I'd never heard of with sideburns and big ears had suddenly become the greatest Briton since Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill. Then he promptly vanished from the news, and I've not heard of him since.

Quelle surprise.

[Emil Miller]

I'll be in Leeds from next Monday for a few days for a conference - we have been warned to expect 'delays' because of the Le Tour...

I know almost nothing about it, given my distaste for organised sport generally. The last time it popped up on the news, some bloke I'd never heard of with sideburns and big ears had suddenly become the greatest Briton since Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill. Then he promptly vanished from the news, and I've not heard of him since.

Quelle surprise.

Can you be referring to 'Wiggo', a.k.a Sir Bradley Wiggins? His fame is practically unique in the annals of international sport insofar as he actually won something i.e the Tour de France. But apart from gaining a knighthood from the Queen, that's where all similarity between the Monarch and Churchill ends.

http://imgur.com/E9QqTr4


P.S. I forgot to mention that he also has tattoos.

[prendrelemick]

Wiggo has been dropped by his team and the less flamboyant Froomey is now the man.


Today we walked across the valley and watched the two hour Le Tour carnival go by. It was great, beautiful weather fantastic scenery, loads of excitement. There must've been about 200 cars and vans and floats that went by before we saw the riders . The Peleton was really impressive, sweeping down from Oxenhope moor, 180 riders going at 40mph about 6 inches apart, surrounded by 7 helicopters and loads of camera bikes and team cars. It was a huge moveable circus I had no idea it was so big. As Mrs P said, it was probably the most people up on that moor since John Wesley preached there.

[Emil Miller]

Sorry to hear that Wiggo has been dropped but there's one thing bugging me, how the hell can the Tour de France begin in Leeds?

[Sancho]

It's 1066 all over again, eh, Emil.

Of course this time around I think they're just trying to sell more T-shirts.

[Emil Miller]

It's 1066 all over again, eh, Emil.

Of course this time around I think they're just trying to sell more T-shirts.

Or possibly an example of the long forgotten entente cordiale,although I suspect that
endemic Anglo/French disdain may surface at some point.
Some years ago I met an English couple in Paris who told me that they had been to a camping site
where the locals were celebrating the end of the Hundred Years War and that the French had been
very welcoming. I said they could afford to because they were the victors.


Cynical or what ?

[Paulclem]

Can you be referring to 'Wiggo', a.k.a Sir Bradley Wiggins? His fame is practically unique in the annals of international sport insofar as he actually won something i.e the Tour de France. But apart from gaining a knighthood from the Queen, that's where all similarity between the Monarch and Churchill ends.

http://imgur.com/E9QqTr4


P.S. I forgot to mention that he also has tattoos.

Wiggins didn't just win it. He was the first Brit to win the Tour.

[Paulclem]

Wiggo has been dropped by his team and the less flamboyant Froomey is now the man.


Today we walked across the valley and watched the two hour Le Tour carnival go by. It was great, beautiful weather fantastic scenery, loads of excitement. There must've been about 200 cars and vans and floats that went by before we saw the riders . The Peleton was really impressive, sweeping down from Oxenhope moor, 180 riders going at 40mph about 6 inches apart, surrounded by 7 helicopters and loads of camera bikes and team cars. It was a huge moveable circus I had no idea it was so big. As Mrs P said, it was probably the most people up on that moor since John Wesley preached there.

It was a fantastc spectacle on the TV, so it must have been impressive. I liked the yellow sheep. Any of yours Mick?

Mrs P's observation is very interesting.

[prendrelemick]

No not mine, mine have green legs (see Blokes thread.)

Have you seen that gone viral picture from the top of Buttertubs pass? Crazy! I will try to post it here



Meanwhile our townsfolk are experiencing a wave of indignation, anger and gloom because ITV cut to the adverts as the peleton sped through, Les cochons!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...The Peleton was really impressive, sweeping down from Oxenhope moor, 180 riders going at 40mph about 6 inches apart, surrounded by 7 helicopters and loads of camera bikes and team cars. It was a huge moveable circus I had no idea it was so big...

Can't wait to see how all that ^ makes it through the "chunnel"!

[LitNetIsGreat]

Hello! A surprise to see a Tour de France on here. Sorry for being away, but I have been busy...

I was very, very, very (!) excited by this for ages and just found it somewhat surreal to see the tour riding over some of the runs that I have cycled on and also riding virtually next to my house on the second day!!!

However, the English dreadful year of sport continues as now both Cavendish and Froome are out of the tour earlier than an English football exit and a tennis flop... never mind. The Tour at least was a fantastic event.