Bonus

I guess this incident could be added to those "bad day at work" vids I see on YouTube . . . .

Summer season is in full swing here and it's great. This really is a fantastic time of the year. The campsite is keeping me busy until 2.30 seven days a week, then it's home for lunch and a Siesta and then a swim in the local river for an hour around 5pm. Evenings I'm out riding then we have supper around 10pm and in bed at midnight. Restaurants are open now until after midnight and the fiesta mood is here ???? I'm seeing some amazing camper vans at the campsite, this one caught my eye the other day. You could take it way up into the mountains on a rough fire road and camp literally anywhere I think! (can someone tell me why some of my photos are loading sideways on the Hub since the upgrade? The pic is fine on my computer . . . )

Since this is a thread that covers a bit of everything, what on earth happened at Medupi on Sunday night?

I think that's about it. Trout in the 2 rivers leading to the dams and some pretty big monsters in the actual dams themselves..... I'm not a fisherman but a friend is and he regularly catches fish to take home and eat.

Nicely done.

He could stop at the side of the road for a coffee and still win.

These youngsters fighting it out!

Another one . . .

This is where I'd have watched if I'd have gone . . . .

I nearly went through to Saint-Lary to watch todays stage but I would have needed a Covid Test and paperwork, so in the end I just didn't go. The climb from Saint-Lary up to the summit on the Col de Portet is about 16km long and not particularly steep - in Tour terms anyway. I've ridden it as part of a social ride just before the Tour went up it last, in 2018. It was fun. The Roadies overtook me on the way up and I roasted them and their skinny tires on the way down!!

Its scorching hot here on the southern side of the Pyrenees, but my weather App predicts rain in Saint-Lary this afternoon..... we will see......

Hope no one loses it on the descents. Roads look slippery.

good start ????

Thinking about it . . . We do always take our flags with us ???? Ouma & Oupa . . . .

Saint-Lary is an hour from my house ????

What a lead out . . . .

This is crazy racing!

Cav changes bikes . . . .

If only there were a "common-sense" Jersey . . .

The Peloton has dropped the hammer. It's going to be hard work for those riders to catch up once they climb out of the hole they rode into . . .

Jeez - some of those guys are quite a way down the hill! Thankfully it seems to be grassy.

wow- nasty crash

I've actually done that and it hurts like hell! Not sprinting at the Tour de France mind you.

The laughing group are usually pretty good at calculating their way just inside the cut-off. 7 minutes means they worked a bit harder than they had too, but better safe than sorry I'm sure.

Some pretty tricky barrier dodging required coming into town there . . . .