Waiting
for the Tour de France to zoom past starts the day before on a
mountain stage.
By
the morning of the stage, every feasible parking spot on the road
edge is taken, and there are parking lots in the pasture.
How
to encourage Richard Virenque, predicted winner of the spotty
(polka-dot) jersey for the seventh time.
(Note the fantastic scenery and the crowds at 12.30, one and a
half hours before the arrival of the publicity caravan.)
Encouraging
the leading hill-climber in detail! Road graffiti of this type
is a major, tradition on the Tour. You will literally run across
it all over France, many months after the Tour is a forlorn memory.
One of the many ways to productively use your time, and to express
your artistry, while awaitng the main event.
The
publicity caravan arrives, seen against the spectacular Pyrenées
scenery.
‘Gifts’
from the Tour publicity caravan.
One
of the bike cameramen, who film the race for French television.
Last
man on the day's stage, Jimmy Casper, followed by one of his team
cars.
