2014 Tour de France Starting in Leeds?
May 12th, 2014, 04:03 AM
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2014 Tour de France Starting in Leeds?
2014 Tour de France starting in Yorkshire? Leeds? Now that just don't seem right.
Leeds???
3rd stage ending in Londres?
http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/u...all-route.html
1st day Leeds to Harrogate - spiffy Harrogate - will include a stop for Yokshure Pud?
1 Flat Saturday, July 5th Leeds > Harrogate 191 km
2 Flat Sunday, July 6th York > Sheffield 198 km
3 Flat Monday, July 7th Cambridge > Londres 159 km
Leeds???
3rd stage ending in Londres?
http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/u...all-route.html
1st day Leeds to Harrogate - spiffy Harrogate - will include a stop for Yokshure Pud?
1 Flat Saturday, July 5th Leeds > Harrogate 191 km
2 Flat Sunday, July 6th York > Sheffield 198 km
3 Flat Monday, July 7th Cambridge > Londres 159 km
May 12th, 2014, 04:26 AM
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Everyone in Yorkshire has been excited about this for months.
Lots of local events planned for the days it passes through.
Cragg Vale is preparing the world's longest bunting to accompany the climb up from Mytholmroyd to Blackstone Edge.
Lots of local events planned for the days it passes through.
Cragg Vale is preparing the world's longest bunting to accompany the climb up from Mytholmroyd to Blackstone Edge.
May 12th, 2014, 05:01 AM
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It sounds absolutely fine to me. Yorkshire is all geared up and it's going to be a wonderful opportunity to showcase this beautiful part of the country. I have every confidence it is going to be incredible, and up here we are very proud to have this opportunity.
What's more, they are going through part of the Dales (and within a mile of my house).
Accommodation in the area has been booked up for months, not just during the race but weeks either side as people come to look at the course, cycle part of it or just enjoy the area.
Our village has had a Tour Committee going for ages, and the hubs are now in place.
Coronation Street is set in Lancashire.
What's more, they are going through part of the Dales (and within a mile of my house).
Accommodation in the area has been booked up for months, not just during the race but weeks either side as people come to look at the course, cycle part of it or just enjoy the area.
Our village has had a Tour Committee going for ages, and the hubs are now in place.
Coronation Street is set in Lancashire.
May 12th, 2014, 05:20 AM
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well I did not mean the message to come across as sneering - was saying tongue in cheek - sorry it did not come across that way.
but the crass selling out of the Le Tour's start to the highest bidder does strike me as a bit opportunistic - change the name of the race, which at one time was a real tour of France.
but the crass selling out of the Le Tour's start to the highest bidder does strike me as a bit opportunistic - change the name of the race, which at one time was a real tour of France.
May 12th, 2014, 05:23 AM
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It starts in Utrecht next year.
This year it goes past my cousins houses. None are interested in it. I did my best to persuade them when I saw them last week but to no avail.
The Giro came through my town, at the end of my street, a couple of years ago.
This year it goes past my cousins houses. None are interested in it. I did my best to persuade them when I saw them last week but to no avail.
The Giro came through my town, at the end of my street, a couple of years ago.
May 12th, 2014, 06:20 AM
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I thought you were being tongue in cheek, but any suspected swipes at Yorkshire's involvement in the Tour aren't going to go down well.
It's being taken seriously and is very important for tourism in the area too, not just during the Tour but to encourage people to come up here for future holidays or even invest in the area.
I've been really impressed with what I have seen so far in terms of preparation. I've been making bunting, and there's so much going on to make this a success.
I always thought the Tour had been through quite a few other countries in the past - Belgium, Switzerland, Holland? Hasn't it been to England before too? Canterbury area I believe.
It's being taken seriously and is very important for tourism in the area too, not just during the Tour but to encourage people to come up here for future holidays or even invest in the area.
I've been really impressed with what I have seen so far in terms of preparation. I've been making bunting, and there's so much going on to make this a success.
I always thought the Tour had been through quite a few other countries in the past - Belgium, Switzerland, Holland? Hasn't it been to England before too? Canterbury area I believe.
May 12th, 2014, 06:35 AM
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There's nothing new about this. The Tour started in Rotterdam in 2010 (and nearly passed the Belgian village where I live), in Liège in 2012. Probably in other countries outside France in the years before. This is big business, you know?!
May 12th, 2014, 06:44 AM
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The Yorkshire marketing chap was explaining where Yorkshire was to the guys in Paris and he started with high culture, Brontes, Hockney, Henry Moore, Hepworth and got a blank look, so he tried for low culture, fish and chips, yorkshire pudding, tripe and onions, flat caps, rugby, cricket, whippets etc nothing.
Finally a hand went up at the back "do you have anything to do with Yorkshire Terriers" which are, of course, le chien de sac à main de nos jours for the female elite in Paris.
Mais oui, after which it was all plain sailing.
Otley is being fitted with a range of broken down bikes painted yellow, the yellow flowers are rampant and Mrs Bilbo is busy knitting red white and blue bunting. Our broken don roads are being repaired with a continious stream of black tar like stuff (up till now we thought macadam only came in broken up lumps) and even some of the eyesores have been tidied up( though of course the Sun pub remains a broken down shambles.
Finally a hand went up at the back "do you have anything to do with Yorkshire Terriers" which are, of course, le chien de sac à main de nos jours for the female elite in Paris.
Mais oui, after which it was all plain sailing.
Otley is being fitted with a range of broken down bikes painted yellow, the yellow flowers are rampant and Mrs Bilbo is busy knitting red white and blue bunting. Our broken don roads are being repaired with a continious stream of black tar like stuff (up till now we thought macadam only came in broken up lumps) and even some of the eyesores have been tidied up( though of course the Sun pub remains a broken down shambles.
May 12th, 2014, 06:46 AM
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In case you missed it http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...e-festival.cfm
I suspect all dope will be imported
I suspect all dope will be imported
May 12th, 2014, 09:07 AM
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"those ubiquitous Tour advertising banners lining roadways."
As far as I'm aware, our laws forbidding advertising banners in areas of natural beauty will be enforced - and practically all the Grand Depart route goes along roads such laws apply to.
Les Grenouilles can deface their own country as much as they like: they're not bringing their filthy foreign habits here.
The Tykes will probably turn a blind eye to French peccadilloes like stuffing themselves with illegal drugs (as long as they can face the NHS waiting list to get a prescription). But the Yorkshire Dales National Park doesn't do ads. Period (Or "point" , as the more linguistically challenged French would put it)
The route (I've just this minute been driving it) is currently chocker with MAMILs (Middle Aged Men in Lycra) cycling in pelotons to test the area's ability to handle the cycling traffic. Logos for Le Grand Depart are all over every gift shop in the county. Damn event's everywhere.
It is, after all, practically the only major global sporting event (apart from Wimbledon) with a Briton as reigning champion
As far as I'm aware, our laws forbidding advertising banners in areas of natural beauty will be enforced - and practically all the Grand Depart route goes along roads such laws apply to.
Les Grenouilles can deface their own country as much as they like: they're not bringing their filthy foreign habits here.
The Tykes will probably turn a blind eye to French peccadilloes like stuffing themselves with illegal drugs (as long as they can face the NHS waiting list to get a prescription). But the Yorkshire Dales National Park doesn't do ads. Period (Or "point" , as the more linguistically challenged French would put it)
The route (I've just this minute been driving it) is currently chocker with MAMILs (Middle Aged Men in Lycra) cycling in pelotons to test the area's ability to handle the cycling traffic. Logos for Le Grand Depart are all over every gift shop in the county. Damn event's everywhere.
It is, after all, practically the only major global sporting event (apart from Wimbledon) with a Briton as reigning champion
