Le Tour de France 2007

It has been another edition of Le tour de France; this time starting from London, going through Belgium on the way to Champs Elysees.
I've been watching it since long time ago. In fact it's a funny story: at the beginning, when I was hearing radio and TV reports, I was immediately switching to something else, as it looked like lose of time. And I became addicted in the past years :), as a rule for summers when I had TV or internet it was Le tour pour cete appres-midi. It's relaxing stuff for holiday, sometimes taking me to sleep; other times energetic, making me to go outside in search for some sports activities (as I hadn't got a bike until this year). The views, the TV commentaries, the fight at the end of each stage, the break-outs, the joy brought to the audience on the places it passes by ... it's impressive, it's different that other sports.

This year I was really amazed to see the white jersey (the best young cyclist), Contador, fighting and playing "cat and mouse" with the yellow jersey. Despite all the doping argues and disqualifications, I kept the wonderful image of Le tour, due to the places it passed by (Col du Galibier, Col d'Aubisque, Col de la Colombiere, Val d'Isere, etc), the fights and speed on climbing and time trials, the team work and strategies.

Unfortunately, the arrival on Champs Elysees caught me on the couch, and not in Paris as I wanted. I had in plan a trip by car, but now I was smiling when I saw the traffic jams around there. I was really happy to recognize almost all the places in Paris that le peloton passed by and the images from this spring came back to my memory; it was really great week-end back then with Madalina (I hope you still have the todo list for next trip :) ), Mihaela and Luci.
No worries, it's time to get a finish in the incoming years. Until then, Ula we have a tour of the Netherlands to see.