July 7, 2014

Le Tour De France

Been back in UK for a while now, but it has not been any photographing. Not here and not in Croatia either. It has been mostly work on the summer house so photography will have to wait untill I go back next time.
However, during the weekend Tour De France has been here in South Yorkshire. During the Saturday they cycled from York to Leeds, Sunday was our turn here in Sheffield and today they are cycling from Cambridge to London.
This might be the only time having this kind of event on my door step, and what's the best way of enjoying it? Disposable BBQ, middle of nowhere and some nice company.
Being there rather early gave us the opportunity to choose a good spot, and just enjoy the weather until they would pass us. 
The wait was rather long, although the caravan with all sorts of fun and entertainment started to pass by an hour two before. Which was a bit refreshing.
Eventually when the conductor peloton with leading cyclists swished past it all was over
in seconds, the average speed is around 40-45km/h which is pretty quick ;)

Obviously there were more cyclists further back swishing by in cluster but it felt like it was over when the leading group passed, so we packed up (had already been standing there for almost 5 hours) went home.
The race ended in Don Valley, further into Sheffield, unfortunately its not possible to be in two places at once.
                                                                          
It was impossible to miss that tour de france was in town 

Sheffield center first days race

More signs

People wrote messages on the road and was hoping that the helicopter was going to film it


Crowded

From the caravan

More caravan

Caravan

caravan

More crowds

Soon they are here

And there is one

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5 comments:

  1. Va kul att få se världens största cykeltävling!
    Näst sista bilden var riktigt häftigt med färgerna och ljuset!

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  2. Visste inte att tour de france körde i uk. Sånt får man ju inte missa då. Är det din cykel den gula ? ;-))
    Fortsatt fin sommar !

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  3. Britterna vet hur man festar det är ett som är säkert :) härliga bilder!

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  4. Som sagt britterna man vet hur man skall fira och arrangera en stor tillställning. Jag tror även att inställningen hos britterna är mera öppen för tillställningar av denna typen. Fina bilder blev det och det verkar ha varit mycket folk på plats.

    Ha det gott,
    Erik

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  5. Så mycket folk! Och nu börjar jag inse vad kan krävas för att få se TriathlonVM nästa år. Upp tidigt, vänta länge, swiiscch, åka hem. Men det känns väl kul ändå att vara delaktig, antar jag?
    / Deerhunter

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