George the Cyclist

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

A Quartet of Ville Étapes

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My simple question of where The Tour de France would finish in Cambrai was greeted with a rare level of enthusiasm from the fifty-year old w...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Fontaine-au-Pire, France

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This year's Tour de France route may be less of a tour of the country than any previous route since that first one on 1903. Rather than ...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Mulhouse, France

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When I last visited Yvon in Mulhouse eight years ago, we didn't have time for a side trip to the Peugeot Museum in Sochaux to see the bi...
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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Le Corbusier, Hugo and Pottier

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It may be a place of worship, but one still must pay a fee of eight euros if one wishes to lay eyes upon the Le Corbusier chapel on a hill h...
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Monday, June 1, 2015

Lyon--City of Cinema and Cycles

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One of the valuable lessons I've learned in my years of bicycling around France is to not to pay attention to road closed signs.  Just b...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Into the Alps

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After two weeks devoted to cinema I can now turn my attention to getting my legs ready for following The Tour de France, just five weeks and...
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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Cannes Day Twelve--The Awards

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The Coen brothers and their seven fellow jurors surprised the prognosticators and awarded Jacque Audiard the Palm d'Or for "Dheepan...
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