I flew out of Manchester last week with just hours left on my UK working visa, using the flight to Dublin to remind myself that although it didn’t feel like it, my arrival into England last year was actually a while ago. Looking back, there have been so many, many highs, and thankfully, just a handful of lows.
There are some events a sports fan just has to watch. They include, but are not limited to, the Melbourne Cup, tennis Grand Slam finals, the AFL Grand Final, the Boxing Day Test, any soccer or rugby world cup game Australia is competing in, and the last day of le Tour…
Le Tour de France is one of the greatest sporting events in the world and is great fun as a spectator – either live or at home. What is it about this race that makes it so much fun for everyone?
Enjoying the 2012 Le Tour prologue in the VIP section was an experience. But in a lot of ways it isn’t the Le Tour experience I’d expected. I was prepared to stand by the course for hours, brave the sun, ration my food and drink supplies and wait and wait to cheer…
The “grass is greener” cliché is often just that. A cliché. Except when you’re at Le Tour de France and that grass is a VIP area. Then it is not only green, it is spacious, air-conditioned and comes with free food and drinks. The first day of the…
Think the Tour de France is just about cycling? Wrong. The Tour has evolved into a roving carnival traveling through the back roads of France. This has largely occurred due to the preceding caravan. The Tour de France Caravan features a stack of sponsorship vehicles in a 40km-long…
You don’t need to be a cycling fan to enjoy the Tour de France. I mean, it helps, but the three-week race is often spectacle enough. Broadcasts of the race draw up to 15 million viewers around the world. But if you’d rather get in the thick of the…
In the 24 hours to 3pm on July 16, I learnt a lot.1. No matter how comfy a car may be for a nap while on the road, it is not a comfortable place to spent the night.2. If a track up a mountain “doesn’t look that far/hard”,…
When you watch the Tour de France live, you’re in the thick of the action. Cheering, watching the riders whizz by, waving at the helicopters circling above. However, you have absolutely no idea what’s going on. After manning our little patch of footpath on part of the stage…
