Tour de France Prologue

Took the train to London to watch the Prologue for the Tour de France.

This year it was starting from London, with the route taking in Trafalgar square, Buck Palace, Hyde Park and finishing up the Mall.

The race itself started about 3pm, and we arrived at about 1pm. We got a posy on the 50m to go banner on the Mall, unfortunatley could only get about 6 rows back. A cyclist would go past and you would get a flash of color and that was about it.

The atmosphere more than made up for it though, it was incredible. Over 1 million people can create quite a buzz! We stood and watched for about an hour and went for a walk along the route and managed to see a little bit more. When we were leaving you go past the warm up and warm down area, so we got to see a few cyclists up close and the team cars with the bikes on the roof, so that was cool.

Something we will have to go back to next year and maybe catch an alpine stage.