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 […]
TWAS A GOOD EASY DAY
27th July, 2007 by Dave Prentis
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 […]