Logging in from Bordeaux, France. We arrived at this city last night. As soon as we stepped outside the train station, I noticed a little sign on the road that said "11 julliet depart Tour de France" which with our bad French we came to understand that the Tour de France will be departing from the city we are at the next day. Anyways, we went on to our Hotel. This was a shitty 1 star hotel but to our eyes it was a GREAT hostel!
We woke up today and we went to the main square to find out the timing of the race. We went for some groceries and later we came back to check the Tour. It all started at about 11:30 with a parade of cars with advertizing. There were people throwing stuff at us, some useful others not so much. Once that was over we walked around to get some nice spots to watch the cyclist go. It was great, there are about 100+ of them with their whole team following them. The only thing is that it all lasted about 2 minutes which went quite fast.
After waiting for 2 hours and seeing the cyclist for 2 minutes we decided to do somethihg productive and walked all the way over to the train station to book our ride to our next destination, Toulouse. We were soaking wet from the sweat so on the way back we dicided to take the tram back. Turns out, the ticket machine was broken so we just got in there anyways and got a ride for free.
As some of you asked... yes, the French were not feeling that happy about their defeat against Italy. There was even a survey on T.V. asking the public if they forgave Zidane for the head to the chest at the end of the game, and most people said that they had forgivin him. While watching the game outside on the street with a massive amount of people it was quite an experience, and even though they lost, the people were still cheering.
Well our timer on our computer is coming to an end and we really dont want to spend more money on internet, especially money that could go to a good Kebab.
We will try to write as soon as possible so stay tooned for more!
(Written mainly by Joel)
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