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Hi, Rusty!
Yes, I should have said "another" Blairgowrie"!
There is some very lovely countryside around where you live.
It doesn't seem to matter which direction you take. you are in the midst of it?
We have a lot of very large parks about...and Commons ...but have to go much further afield to find what I would call genuine countryside.
The Time Trials are not very exciting...most of the names are unknown to me.
I guess we are in flux... a lot of up and coming youngsters.
Time was , the team trials would be fiercely contended by the "big names" all vying for a place!
I had forgotten that Le Tour lasted for so long a period.
I shall have to refer to the notes that you gave me, in order to refresh my memory as to how it all works!
The ice cream was good!



Goodness, Pigale!
It must be unusually cold in your neck of the woods, for you to be requesting hot soup?
Your temperatures are most often way above ours.
Like Rusty, I expect you will be watching the cycling?

Hello, Elle,
I learn quite a lot watching le Tour.
Today was about the Neandertals in Germany.
The route today is Dusseldorf to Liege.
Many interesting things to see on the way.
I remember last year was the airman in his parachute hanging from a church steeple.
That happened during the war.
Think it was somewhere in Normandy, near the landing beaches?
Pity the athletics are not what you hoped for.
I can't recommend the cycling, for sure as God made little green apples there will be a big crash and you do not like that!
Lucky you with the ice cream!

Hello Elle and Rusty!

Yes, unusually cold (to me!) for this time of the year!
And since the temps were no higher than 12C, with drizzle/showers
and wind the whole week, the house has had time to get rather
fresh.

I am not watching Le Tour today, but will catch up with it later on.

Rusty, your memory is good: you are right, the parachutist hanging from a church steeple was in Normandy not far from the beaches, in a village called
Sainte-Mère-L'église, close to Utah and Omaha beaches.

Sorry, not meant to be sent yet!!!

I wanted to add that I felt sorry for Valverde suffering from such
a bad injury on Day One !

Hello, Pigale!
Thank you for refreshing my memory about the parachutist!
Sainte-Mere-Eglise, of course.
I knew it was close to the landing beaches!
I learn a lot watching the Tour every year.
Helps to improve my limited education.
A pity about Valverde.
He could have been a great help to Quintana in the mountains, and could have perhaps won a stage or two.
Movistar will miss his contribution.
I like seeing "G" Thomas in yellow.
Must be with the help of these Welsh cakes that he gets sent from home!

Hi, Rusty!
Ah yes, I remember your telling me about the parachutist hanging from the church steeple!
Yes, I agree that one can definitely learn a lot from watching the cycling events in different countries.
I even remember you and Pigale promising me that I would see a bear.....
but I didn't!
I just cannot tolerate "waiting" for the accidents!
There wasn't a lot of excitement in the Time Trials , purely because there was no great name competition for some of the places
The two competitors who come first are automatically granted a team place, providing, of course, that they have passed the time qualification.
There was some excitement in the 800m, when Lynsey Sharp was surprisingly run out of the first two places (Shelayna Oskan- Clark winning) but I have no doubt that Lynsey will also be selected.
I am not continuing to watch Sue Barker's "show"... too much television for one afternoon!
I shall save that for another time!

Hello, Elle!
I remember the "bear"!
Was that in the Pyrenees?
Seriously, I have learnt much "stuff" over the years watching the Grand Tours.
Best you do not watch.
There are always accidents in bike racing.
Another crash today on the wet roads.
I am looking forward to tomorrow's stage, it is reasonably "clunky".
Should suit Sagan.
Lexi is off to a good start, and so is So-Yeon Ryu.
Not live on TV yet though!

This thread is like Gogglebox but without the TV pictures, unusual for a Crossword Forum though the correspondents have helped me out with the Observer's Everyman on more than one occasion.

No need for them today, a relatively easy one

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, I think you are right and it was in the Pyrenees - it would be a brown bear then?
I seem to recall similar promises of an eagle?
I didn't see that either!
It isn't the crash once it has happened - or pictures of subsequent injuries - that upset me, it is just the continual waiting for / expectation of / something "bad" going to happen!
A bit like an episode of "Casualty"!
What do you mean by a "clunky" terrain - rough, pebbly, hilly?
You sound as though you are settled down to watch the golf now.........
And I must phone my cousin,,,,,,,,,

Hello, Elle,
Yes, a European brown bear, I think.
There are eagles there, too, and maybe other large birds.
A crash is not always bad.
There was pictures of Valverde in his hospital bed and he looked very content with himself!
My version of "clunky" is a series of short sharp hills.
The golf is just coming on.
Lexi is going well, so is Brooke Henderson, but there are 6 South Korean girls in the leading ten, so it is going to be a battle!