Saturday, July 18, 2009

Stage 14

It's raining and cold again today, so instead of battling for position on a category 3 climb, we instead opted to position ourselves in the parking lot of the Intermarche in the town of Delle. The peloton will be moving pretty quickly by this point, but we're right next to our car and have quick access to the supermarket's restroom. If the gendarme don't block off the rear exit for this place, we should also have quick passage to the tunnel into Switzerland. We're interested to see what this thing is like as we have to pay 40 Euros to drive through it (about $60, yes?). Hopefully this tunnel isn't the same underground place in Switzerland where they house the CERN reactor.

The other photo is of one of the Carrefour cars in the caravan (sponsor of the polka dot / king of the mountains jersey). Pretty decent take today considering we were standing in a crowd of kids, and yes, we let the kids have first dibs.

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