Le Tour de France?

Le Tour de France?

Well, perhaps this young boy is not quite ready

for the famed race, but he handled his bicycle well on

the park path.

Tomorrow the race will finish on the Champs Élysées

and I will be watching from home.

Jardin du Luxembourg

75006, Paris

Tour de France 2015

Tour de France

It all begins today

 and promises many view of the French countryside 

along with exciting competition.  

Check it out here.

(Have a great July 4th Celebration)

 

Tour de France

Grand Start: Utrecht, the Netherlands

Le Tour de France 100

100 Years

Le Tour

Le Tour de France begins today and looks back to the first Tour in 1903.  Three grueling weeks of mountains and time trials, 2,000 miles, 23 stages, all culminating with a finish on the Champs-Elysées.

The Tour de France has visited every region of Metropolitan France except Corsica, but the opening stages this year begin on Corsica as part of the celebrations for the 100th edition of the race.

If you have no interest in the sport, you would surely love the countryside, the little villages, the chateaus, the mountain ridges, the coastlines.  Take a look at the towns and villages of the 2013 Tour.  There is much to be seen... and, it lasts for three weeks!

Le Tour de France

2013, June 29 - July 21

Corsica and France

Un mélange de vélos

These bikes near Place d'Aligre remind me that today is a "rest day" on Le Tour de France. I do not think that any of these will be found in the race when it resumes on Tuesday.

Rue Théophile Roussel
près de Place d'Aligre