Tour de France and Etape du Tour Planning Guide — Étape du Tour Routes, Maps & Travel Advice

How to pack your bike for air travel

Welcome to Tour de France Tips – the website for planning a cycling trip to France for Le Tour, L’Etape or just leisure. The website is full of useful information, facts and ideas to help you plan a great trip to France. For an all-in-one guide, check out the extensive Guide to Cycling [...]

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Le Tour 2010: Stage 16 live from the road

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Stage 16: 2010 Tour de France Well, the irony is impressive. After I wrote in my Guide to Cycling in France, for Tour stages, where you plan to ride up a mountain, you MUST ride up a few hours before hand. I also wrote that you can ignore the gendarmerie. Both of these insights proved true yesterday. After driving [...]

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L’Etape Du Tour and Le Tour stage previews

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Below are two quick links to aid those heading to Le Tour and L’Etape in 2010. 1. L’Etape preview by Rapha 2. Every stage of Le Tour mapped, by Podium Cafe Just a quick reminder that I head off in 3 weeks, so am madly preparing for an around the world flight into Toulouse from Australia, and some [...]

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New Coffee Finding Website for Tdftips.com-sters

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I’ve been busting my bum over at wherespresso.com for the last few months to get it fixed up (which explains why I have not posted anything on here for ages). And now, I am happy to release version 1 of what will be many iterations. Wherespresso.com is a coffee review website where anyone around the world [...]

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Mobile Phone Data Roaming Tips for France (Reader Help Needed)

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One of my first posts on this site was this one about Mobile Roaming Data tips. As with anything in the IT and Telco space, things change, so an update is warranted. After I returned home to a AUD$2000 mobile phone bill I had a look around for an international data roaming cap plan from the Australian [...]

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Free Western EU flight planner

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I’ve had a comprehensive (8800 lines!) Western EU flight planner made for tourdefrancetips.com readers. It consists of: Origin Airport and Airport Code, and country Destination Airport and Airport code, and country Airline, airline code Baggage Restrictions Information on how bikes are considered with respect to baggage (i.e. are they included in your baggage, carried free etc) Excess baggage costs So, you could filter [...]

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