TWAS A GOOD EASY DAY

27th July, 2007 by Dave Prentis

Finally, a nice relaxing day watching the Tour. Today was the easiest day I think ive had trying to chase this damn race. The days stage was to finish in a little town called Castelsarrasin, which is about 60km North-West from Toulouse, so it was a nice small drive as well. The riders were predicted […]



MORE WALKING!

26th July, 2007 by Dave Prentis

Another looooooooooooong day. Got onto the road at 9am, got back to the hotel at around 11pm. I covered around 500km of driving in the whole day, and that was without getting really lost. I also thought that I walked pretty far 2 days ago up the Col de Peyresourde, but that was nothing. I […]



NO PAIN, NO GAIN

24th July, 2007 by Dave Prentis

And my legs are in a hell of a lotta pain. I made my way to the Col de Peyresourde, which was the final climb in today’s Tour stage. And boy is it a huge freekin mountain. The Plateau-de-Beille was different, it was covered in bush and trees so you couldnt see the scenery very […]



ALLEZ! ALLEZ! ALLEZ!

23rd July, 2007 by Dave Prentis

Is what you here a million times a day at the Tour. The last couple of days have been pretty damn cool. I left Contiki wanting more, but have now moved on to the final leg of my holiday and its been great (so far). I managed to pick up my absolute of a beast […]



CONTIKI

21st July, 2007 by Dave Prentis

Yes, im going to talk about Contiki again. I really, really, enjoyed it. Some of the bus rides not so much because you think you are missing out on things, but now its over, I miss it, and really enjoyed hanging out in random cities with a great bunch of random people. For 9 days […]