I limited it to 10 minutes, there's a lot more footage. The approach to Brest is the one used in 2011, after the dock road. It was essentially the city centre at a busy time, albeit in August, which is why most riders look aghast.
2007 used a school that's closer to the eastern edge of the city, but uses the same steep climb as the 2015/2019 approach. In 2007 I had the scattering of the ashes, followed by an encounter with a recent accident on the roundabout at the top of the hill. I didn't put that in, as there was already 'too much perspective', and the footage is poor, as I didn't want to intrude too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4YPCJDIjPII encountered Brian, the Canadian doctor who assisted at the scene, at a bar near Mamers on the return, and was assured that the patient wasn't too badly injured.
You're never very far from medical attention on PBP.
Those two incidents explain my enthusiasm for the free beer at Brest in 2007. It was also the thought of the beer that sustained me through the traffic into Brest in 2011, and why I was quite so grumpy at having to pay €1.50, as it broke the spell a bit.
The only bit of footage I took in this edit was the bit with John Muellner of Seattle Randonneurs on the bridge. Heather Swift took the 2007 and some of the 2011 footage, and David Robinson did the extreme telephoto stuff in 2011.