A 4.45 am alarm call starts the day. Our team are second off but that doesn’t give us a lie in! As the first team hit the road, we (Team Ealing) have the comfort of the coach to the first stop as the dawn rises. Sadly the fog doesn’t and we are down to 50m visibility for the first part of the our leg. We now have our French motorcycle support and roads are closed with precision timing to allow our peloton through. This is a great experience and the motorcyclists do their best to minimise the impact to the French car drivers. At one point the road appears to close just seconds before we sweep through. For non-cyclists the equivalent might be the Fast Track at the airport or the Olympic family traffic lanes in the summer. All that’s missing are the hoards of waving fans but we have to make do with two people briefly distracted at a farm
The choice of clothing is clearly a big issue and is taxing the brains of some of the best property brains in the UK – short/long, thin/thick, two/three layers. Good job they are more decisive in their business lives!
For the geographers and statisticians today’s Stage took us from Calais to Reims (please pronounce it correctly, otherwise it will annoy my wife ie not “reams”) and clocked up 318 kms.
Today's photo is from the massage room. No its not a call of "dead ants" but the post ride exercises!
As they used to say on the TV, “stay tuned” for more. Champagne region tomorrow.
PS Andrew hasn’t mentioned my snoring, so either I got away with it or he is very polite.
Neil and Andrew
maybe he is deaf?
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