I flew down to London on Thursday evening and had a lovely surprise at London City Airport when BC and Holly met me there.
As the sale of our house appears to be going a head, Friday (and most of the rest of my free time over the weekend) was spent throwing out “things”. I was very strict with myself – when did I last use “it” whatever “it” was, if I hadn’t used “it” since I left for Edinburgh would I use “it” again. Magpie that I am, I did recycle an enormous amount of belongings…but with still more to do.
Anyway, BC, her mum, dad, brother and sister-in-law and I went up to Hyde Park on Saturday to watch the Prolog. Glorious sunshine: we found ourselves a tree so we could have sunshine and shade for our day’s viewing from the comfort of chairs and picnic blanket. We were in a perfect position to observe and absorb the atmosphere the cyclists warming up and then racing on the circuit, the gendarmes on motorcycle escorting them, the convoy of team cars and the publicity caravan in advance of the race starting. The publicity caravan was a wonderful collection of vehicles decorated with / converted to products of the sponsors of Le Tour – bottles of water, cheeses, tyres, kangaroos…
I was so excited to see in real life so many of these riders who had been cycling heroes for years – Eric Zabel, Robbie McEwen, Tom Boonen, David Millar, George Hincapie…the list is endless
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