{"id":7880,"date":"2025-07-21T21:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:09:31","slug":"le-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7880","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks we have been enjoying watching the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tour de France<\/strong><\/span> as we have done regularly since our boys were at primary school. We thoroughly enjoy\u00a0 ITV&#8217;s coverage which is quirky and informative, Sadly this year marks the last year of it being on terrestrial television and the excellent <strong>ITV<\/strong> team. It pulled no punches tonight on green washing by fossil fuel companies &#8211; not sure if subscription channels will be so brave!<\/p>\n<p>The one thing the <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tour<\/span><\/strong> does show is what a beautiful country <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">France<\/span> <\/strong>is. Enjoyed the\u00a0 <strong>Pyrenees<\/strong> at the weekend which brought back great memories of me and the boys cycling up these great mountains. Still amazed at what we did eight years ago! A few pictures from then including the top of the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Col de Tourmalet<\/span> <\/strong>and the <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Col de Solour<\/span><\/strong> which were in this years Tour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0206-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7883\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7883\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0206-2.jpg?fit=1599%2C899&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1599,899\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0191-1.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7884\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7884\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0191-1.jpg?fit=1599%2C899&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1599,899\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0191 (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0297\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0297.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7885\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0297.jpg?resize=516%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0215.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" 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