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Leaving France the day the Tour de France comes to town
ElyDave:
Sounds like when I lived in Castle Donington, you soon learned to either not be there, or bank on not leaving on superbike weekends, unless you knew the seekrit back way out of town
bhoot:
And like living in the Isle of Dogs on marathon day!
mzjo:
The TdF in Limoges (had it several times, various routes in and out) is nothing like as bad as the Confolens Folkdancing Festival (closures all week) or even as the Tour de Limousin for me (TdL shuts off my entire part of town, fenced off ghetto and fairly inadequate traffic rerouting). IME the TdF organizers take a lot more care of the passers-by who might not be interested in the race and probably blugeon the local authorities into doing it right (or more right than they would otherwise do). (IOW if you think TdF is bad try one of the other events or even a market or town centre "vide grenier" to get a real idea of chaos).
Russell:
As predicted there was no problem but the slip road off the autoroute and the road leading to our last minute supermarket/petrol station stop were signed to be closed 3 hours after we had been through. So our experience of the TdF consisted of a couple of signs, sigh.
Still we can now watch it on ITV4!
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