Tour de France on Monday

Interesting for you. I always think that's proper cycling. That daft boring stuff that Chris Hoy et al go in for -riding round in a circle indoors is pointless.

I saw it in Tonbridge the time before last that it was in Engand and found it all very exciting! The whole street was en fète, picnic lunches, chilled white wine and Pimms of course with chairs and tables in the front gardens and under the trees which line the road. Lovely atmosphere. Was it last year they were in England again (Yorkshire?) and London? SIL is a keen cyclist and the peloton also passed very close to their house. Hope it stays fine for you, it is horrid when there are accidents on wet roads. ????????

Is that your time or our time Granjura? Let us know and I'll watch for a wave

Our time, and we are 1 hour ahead! We have been looking frantically for our English, British, French and Swiss flags - just disappeared! We will be next to the little Church...

OK. Wear a red carnation in your buttonhole

Brits doing really well! Cheer them on Granjura

Well of course, I am British you know ;) and OH even more than me ;) hence looking for those flags- where the Dickens have they gone???

where the heck would I get a red carnation around here?

We had 1000s and 1000s of pink and fuchsia coloured wild ones all over the place for a few weeks. The wild flowers have beem amazing this year.

I'll look out for you gj, I watch the "Tour" every year, and love it. ??

I think I saw the church but they did it on an aerial shot. It's lovely round there. We spent a few days in Saint Claude some years ago and had a wonderful time.

It's tomorrow Badenkate - or did they show a preview of the route today?

Oh dear, getting too excited . They went through a village with a church just at the right time as well! OK, I'll try again tomorrow

hihihi

à demain

They are going to be hot- strong sunshine and not a puff of wind.

Have you found the flags yet?

Looking forward to it granjura.

Is it live on ITV4?

I'm here! Watching live on France 3; make sure you wave.

all over now - back home for some home made elderflower cordial and ice. No idea what the helicopters filmed - did you see our little Church after the Swiss-French border?

They are now down the hill at our local town, Neuchâtel, and the 3 lakes region.

Never found the flag- where could they be???

Caught a quick glimpse of the roof of the church on French TV before they cut away, ITV3 on UK TV crossed the frontier and then went to an advert break!
So no, not really.
All looking very pretty though.

Sorry ITV4 that is.

Watching it on ITV4 as well. Nice to see around Berne again. DH used to buy me a piece of jewellery from a little shop in Berne every Christmas - not expensive I hasten to add. Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich was the place to go for that .
Nice to see the Aare again as well. We lived very close to it for 10 years.

Watching the replay of ITV4 - they showed our local French Castle, Château de Joux, and then the Church of our twin French village- and then ... as Mamie says, an advert break... grrrr. The next Church shown was down in the Valley - so yep- they missed us - and me waving and shouting 'go on Christopher'- lol. Should have taped French TV or Swiss TV instead- but you got an idea of the area- and they even just mentionned out Green Fairy, 'absinthe'.