http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Team-Liggett/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Team Liggett en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:22:26 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:22:26 +0000 Apologies for the shortness of this message however I am buggered and its nearly time to head home. Arrived in Franfurt late yesterday after a huge day on the road seeing lots of motorways not very exciting but managed to pass the time by listening to oom pa music when we reached germany. Actually the radio stations were pretty good and an italian staion was playing little birdy and some other A http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/blog-305699.html Hi allI am sitting in a small bar in Corps south of Grenoble watching the final time trial very exciting. Evans is peging back time but its going to be close We just had a huge gormet 8 course french lunch at the hotel de la poste to farewell our tour of France as tomorrow we all have to drift north to franfurt to return our vans and then fly home. everyone is looking forward to being home desp http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Hautes-Alpes/blog-304746.html Tour Update July 24thApologies if I cover some ground I have already gone over in brief detail in the last couple of blogs however this is the first chance I have had for a while to do a decent update.My last detailed blog saw us in the Pyrenees at Luz St Sauvier. We packed up the vans and headed in various directions due to tom tom programming and dodgy navigation for Carcassonne a medieval wa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Hautes-Alpes/blog-304382.html Alp D'Huez Wow I am sitting at the top of Alp D'Huez after riding up this morning. We just met with Phil Liggett and got our photo taken with him he signed our jerseys and we presented him with one of his own Phil loved it. All having a great time and we will be about 3 kms from the finish at Alp D'Huez yelling like hell for cadel. Heaps of Aussies here and cadel cadel cadel painted all ove http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Hautes-Alpes/blog-303551.html Hi Alljust a quick update on our travels following the tour. We spent yesterday in Carcossone checking out la cite and this morning on to Provence to see the tour wizz thru. We got stuck in a bit of traffic and then had a hard km ride over the luberon range to Bonnieux a great hill town that I visited with my family in 2002. Unfortuaely we missed the riders by 5 mins bugger.Just having a coo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Bonnieux/blog-301843.html Week one of the tour down two more to go.Anthony and I flew out of Perth at 6am Wednesday 9th July and after a longish flight landed weary but well in Dubai. It was hot 42 degrees and humid as hell. Luckily we only had a short stop before boarding another flight to Frankfurt. Kindly the Emirates check in staff at Perth had slugged us for excess baggage as with our bikes etc it was hard to make http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Midi-Pyr-n-es/Cauterets/blog-301056.html Le tour begins Well we are here safely in Frankfurt after a marathon plane journey via Dubai. My travel partner Anthony Dean and I managed to stay sane and relatively fit after the two flights.Perth to Dubai was 11.5 hours on a seat designed by Boral Concrete mmmm very comfy. Kept sane by a huge selection of entertainment and crying children. By the end I must have been flagging as I found D http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/blog-297819.html We're Nearly Off Nine men and thier vans are closing in on the start line for our Tour de France. Next week we all fly out and meet at various points between Frankfurt Toulouse and Pamplona before all getting together at Arreux in south western France. From there we will pick up stage nine of the tour in the pyrenees on the Col d Aspin. We have dubbed the group Team Liggett after the voice of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-292982.html