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Day 14 – Into Spain, Boltana
We headed off early and continued to be interested by Andorra; it’s certainly an interesting (and wealthy) place.
We had had a crap sleep as there seemed to be some sort of dance party all night in town. I think it stopped at 6AM, and was characterised by bloody [...]
Day 12 – The Peyresourde and driving to the Plateau de Beille for TDF Stage 14
Day 12 dawned sunny and quite cool and I snuck a Peyrasourde ascent in. The Bagneres de Luchon side (Arreau, where we were, is on the opposite side) is harder and more picturesque, then headed down so we could [...]
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After a couple of days we drove over the Col du Portillon – a Bucket Col from both sides – into France, through Bagneres-de-Luchon. Our aim was to see the TDF head up the Ancizan on Stage 12.
We arrived into Arreau, got a park and pizza’d up. The caravan started rolling into town as [...]
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Day 8 – Etape du Tour 2011, Etape Alpes
I’ve already published the horrendous story of my Etape Alpes effort. Check out my Etape du Tour 2011 Etape Alpes report.
Day 9 – Spain and the Pyrenees
After Etape Alpes, we hightailed it down via Grenoble to get to Spain. We parked for the night off [...]
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Day 6 – Alpe D’Huez Ascent 2
We had a cracking sleep then woke up to a hot Alpes day and the D’Huez beckoned. We went into town for croissants and coffee and a bit of morning market shopping then I knocked out another D’Huez ascent.
This area seems to have a pattern of [...]
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Day 4 – Climb Avoriaz, drive to Chamonix
The next day we rolled up toward Morzine en route to Chamonix. After having a look around.
We parked up and I rode toward Avoriaz. The weather was typical Hautes Alpes sketchy arvo weather with threatening rain. I bailed short of the Avoriaz peak due to rain [...]
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Day 1 – Packing, Departure
We arrived to Melbourne airport with my precious Look (thanks to Fitzroy Cycles) packed carefully away. I’ve described how to do this before, but I’ll re-iterate how important it is to pack your bike properly. Here’s the link to my video showing how I pack my bike in an EVOC [...]
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Some big news for tdftips today.
Tdftips was something I dreamt up after returning from my dream trip to France for the Tour and Etape in 2009. What started as a site with a few articles and one ebook aimed at helping people plan their own trip to France has quickly exploded into a [...]
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Sorry this all out of order. Ordinarily I’d provide some detail of the previous day’s adventures but thought you’d want TDF stuff first and foremost!
What a nightmare. I’ve seriously learnt even more TDF tips about campervanning and watching the TDF on this stage.
We rolled into town after a long drive from the base of [...]
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After a lack of sleep I woke at 4.45 to get ready. I was ready way early and planned to meet TDF Tips reader and all round nice guy Peter H’AC at 5.30 at the bridge out of of St Michele-de-Maurienne but he was delayed by the nature call of other riders at his [...]
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