Le Tour de France

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Date: 09 July 2007 18:35:28

I spent an unusual amount of time at the weekend looking at bike related things.

On Friday we went to the opening ceremony in Trafalgar Square, it wasn't brilliant to be honest, perhaps if I'd had a seat and had been near the front to see everything for myself it would have been better, but I'm still glad I went.

On Saturday we went to Green Park but wandered around to Kensington Gardens to watch the Prologue time trials. Thankfully we were in the shade where we were standing. Although we started without a position at the rail people do give up after a while so it didn't take that long to get a decent viewing position. We watched a lot of men hurtling around chasing Police on motorbikes and being chased by cars. It doesn't seem quite fair to me. I took a couple of very lucky photos but then lost the knack so I stopped. The toilets were much better than Greenbelt (but then they hadn't been there for long) I didn't need to roll up my trousers for the occasion at all.

On Sunday we went to a secret location to the south of Canterbury, not really a secret but I don't know exactly where it was. There were some other people around and it was great. Two fire engines, a police car and other non-emergency services people were there. We watched the caravane for the second day and got free stuff thrown to us again. Soon I will gather the free things together to take a photograph of them. You will be stunned and amazed by my good fortune.

The highlight of the weekend was watching 187 (or possibly 186) racers coming zooming past in a huge group. It was far too enthralling to stop looking to pick up my hat which blew off. A fantastic vision. A short while later a single rider followed and then another single rider. They got cheered too.

All in all a fabulous weekend.