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Tour de France 2025

Chris Hall46 Comments

Paris Photographer – Louis Paulin

The red-headed woman had known the strange and wonderful breed of people who stayed around Montmartre for more than a year now, she had been reminiscing about all of them: the three vampires, the one shapeshifter and (of course) the two gargoyles.

She’d been to the small but beautiful cemetery known as the Large Quarries, where she’d drawn a rather nice picture using her new pastels and paper; she was about to finish since no-one was around today, but then she saw Scatty.

‘Gosh, that’s good,’ said Scatty, ‘you’ve drawn several plants around here – the one’s I have used…. hmm, delightful, and useful too – magical; but never mind about that, we should go to that old mansion, and let’s not delay – you do know that the Tour de France is about to start, don’t you?’

‘You remember what they said, the two gargoyles, while we all watched that gorgeous ballet a few days ago?’ – ‘I do remember what the two of them said, something about going to see the Tour de France, and riding on a big motorcycle, yes?’

‘Come on we’re here, and we can watch the TV,’ – the red-headed woman and Scatty sat down on a large couch, while Joan and Francis were already sitting here to watch the Tour.

‘Look over there,’ said Joan, ‘we can see those two on their big motorcycle, and there’s something going on… a couple of policemen (gendarmeries, in fact), oh gosh, it seems that both of them will be detained!’

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46 thoughts on “Tour de France 2025”

  2. Tadej Pogačar is doing no favors to Netflix series about Tour De France;no suspense, he just dominated 😆
    And I see he does the same this year.
    I love how other smaller teams are complaining about his wins… like there is in this universe a professional athlete who will forfeit the win.
    Mark Cavendish claiming his 35th win was mega!
    As well the first win for Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay!

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    • Very impressive about all you’ve said, Nick. My fav is Binian. Did really well last year, but had a very bad crash, and he was out. Maybe this time…

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  10. Chris, this felt like a delightfully offbeat interlude—something about the mix of magical realism, Montmartre, and Tour de France mayhem just worked for me. I especially enjoyed the way it teetered between casual whimsy and sudden trouble!

    Much love,
    David

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  16. This was such a fun read! It actually reminds me of when I rented a dumpster recently to clear out a bunch of old stuff in my garage—felt like I was preparing for my own little adventure. No magical gargoyles or shapeshifters, but I did find some old keepsakes that felt like hidden treasures!!

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