Le Touquet

Yeah.

And so that's because I thought when they were landing, why are they landing at Le Touquet? That's right in the north.

And then remembered, oh, yeah, it's a it's a fly drive thing.

That's what they did.

he's history now isn't he yeah he is but I just you know

yeah the riders do the talking over there which is a good thing move on to the women's race which begins on the 30th of July it begins in Leeds so again we've got three three stages in the UK, we've got Leeds Manchester, Manchester the Sheffield and then a team time trial around London which is a bit uncharted because it's never been done in the Tour de France fan before, it's not a feature of many women's races with probably the team time trial world championships um 18 kilometer ttt um but i think notably um once the the race hits uh le touquet um on for stage four is it basically goes almost straight down the middle of france um to finish um atop the puy de dôme but there are no alps and there are no pyrenees yeah what's up with that it's It's interesting.

I don't know about you, but I'm kind of torn on this one.

Is this the race setting out its stall as its own thing?

They finish in London and then get the Eurostar, I presume, or whatever.

I don't know how they're going to get to Le Touquet Paris Plage, but they're going straight

across.

The guest country reference is so, so, like, such a tiny portion of the audience that no one will get it.

All right, stage

four.

Stage four starts in Le Touquet Paris Plage.

Plage is beach, so I assume it's at the beach.

Le syndicat de police Alliance a exprimé de forts doutes, demandant des explications au président Emmanuel Macron sur la destination de ses forces de l'ordre et sur l'inégalité de traitement entre les citoyens.

Le journal Le Canard Enchaîné avait également soutenu qu'une compagnie de CRS avait été envoyée spécifiquement pour surveiller les magasins du frère de la première dame à Amiens et au Touquet.

Cependant, la préfecture de la Somme est intervenue rapidement pour rétablir la réalité des faits.

À travers un communiqué officiel, les autorités ont catégoriquement démenti l'accusation selon laquelle les compagnies de CRS auraient été dédiées à la protection de la boutique Trogneux.

Before heading across the channel to Calais.

And a road stage down to Le Touquet.

And then it makes its way down the spine of France, really, doesn't it? Nevers, Clément Ferrand, La Bourboule, and then Le Puy-de-Dame, Daniel.

And they've done well here with the route.

Uh, forget the, forgetting the other three if you can't get on them.

Rye and Littlestone is a really good match-up, and, but also to do exactly what we did, uh, on the way through to Le Touquet or to Belgium and Holland to play golf, um, catch a game at Littlestone.

It's entirely worth it.

And if you are going to go and play there, do have a look on their website beforehand 'cause there's lots of really great information on there, and do watch Phantom of the Open because the story of Maurice Flitcroft will make you chuckle, even if there are some caricatures of golf officials and journalists in there that might make you cringe a little if you do watch them and know the real people involved.