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Tour de France on Monday

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granjura Sat 16-Jul-16 18:19:22

... will go past our house around 3.20 to 3.30 ish

dustyangel Mon 18-Jul-16 20:24:31

granjura, I'll certainly keep that in mind if we ever actually get to do our proposed trip round Europe. smile

granjura Mon 18-Jul-16 19:50:45

One thing I love here, as that we experience both France and Switzerland almost on a daily basis- makes life more interesting.

granjura Mon 18-Jul-16 19:15:13

ahaha I know a great B&B- sort of, mates' rates smile

dustyangel Mon 18-Jul-16 19:01:52

We don't get a very good picture on British TV, so watched on Eurosport. They went to a "tech talk" i.e.split screen, small picture, just as your village came into view gj angry. Still, beautiful scenery and so green! And it's got DH interested in visiting Switzerland. smile

granjura Mon 18-Jul-16 17:13:39

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'.

Badenkate Mon 18-Jul-16 16:17:49

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 wink.
Nice to see the Aare again as well. We lived very close to it for 10 years.

Mamie Mon 18-Jul-16 15:21:32

Sorry ITV4 that is.

Mamie Mon 18-Jul-16 15:21:00

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. grin
All looking very pretty though.

granjura Mon 18-Jul-16 15:16:52

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

granjura Mon 18-Jul-16 15:16:25

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.

Mamie Mon 18-Jul-16 13:18:07

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

Tegan Mon 18-Jul-16 13:09:30

Is it live on ITV4?

dustyangel Mon 18-Jul-16 12:53:33

Looking forward to it granjura.

Badenkate Mon 18-Jul-16 12:14:09

Have you found the flags yet?

granjura Mon 18-Jul-16 08:16:33

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

granjura Sun 17-Jul-16 21:09:53

hihihi

à demain

Badenkate Sun 17-Jul-16 21:03:44

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

granjura Sun 17-Jul-16 20:11:55

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

Badenkate Sun 17-Jul-16 16:53:13

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.

hildajenniJ Sun 17-Jul-16 16:13:31

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

granjura Sun 17-Jul-16 11:06:21

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.

granjura Sun 17-Jul-16 11:04:14

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???

rosesarered Sun 17-Jul-16 10:34:30

Brits doing really well! Cheer them on Granjura

Badenkate Sun 17-Jul-16 10:31:31

OK. Wear a red carnation in your buttonhole grin

granjura Sun 17-Jul-16 10:15:16

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...