There is no better ending to my vacation than watching the bikers of the Tour de France zoom by at high speeds. I have always wanted to watch the tour de France somewhere along their path but it never happened until today. May be the secret to a good vacation is to not have any plan which is exactly what I did this summer. I basically bought a one way ticket to Stockholm and the rest followed, Oslo, Tallinn, Helsinki, Warsaw, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Paris, Crete, Paris, Besançon, Paris again !! The Tour de France is the bonus I always dreamed of and today it happened .. We found out yesterday that the tour will be passing close to Besançon so we made plans to be on the path of the race… It took us about a 45 minutes drive from Besançon to run into its path.. and voila… we were with the crowds waiting patiently for the peloton of bikers de show up … we sat there for at least 2 hours before cars belonging to TV stations, radios, marketing people started streaming through before the breakaway biker showed up solo followed minutes later by a small group of bikers and then a much bigger group .. the yellow jersey biker was in the middle of it all… well protected by his teammates… by now the rain has been steady to hard rain and i was getting a little cold too.. Once the big peloton passed, we headed back to town. I was so happy to take the Tour de France off my to do list ✅ … Tomorrow I head to Paris again and may be see the tour end in the Champs Élysée ??? Who knows …
