Tour de France fun

We arrived in the French Pyrenees yesterday. I am going to blog separately about Spain as we had a great time travelling along the northern coast. We are at the col de Peyresourde. The point of being at this particular spot is that the Tour de France comes up and over the col on Wed and then it comes back up and over on Thurs, so it's a chance to see two days from one spot. We are camped out in a farmers field about 500 metres below the col. There are sooo many people arriving each day, it is like a music festival. It is already very busy so it will be utter madness by tomorrow. I think the road gets closed tomorrow evening, but who knows really? Everyone here is cycling mad, obviously. We've been chatting to some Brits, Belgiums and lots of French fans. It was a shame to hear about the tacks on the road yesterday, hopefully that sort of idiotic behaviour won't be repeated. Paul is really missing out on the cycling opportunities here, as he left his road bike at home. However, we managed a hot ride up to the col this morning on our beach cruisers, with Daisy in her basket on the back. It did produce some funny looks from the hoards of cyclists kitted out in Lycra on their carbon framed bikes, but I think it was good to show them something different!