Before the race comes through, the waiting crowds see...

a cycle club rides on the on the Tour de France course

a 'devil' float in advertising caravan and crowd

a giant cyclist

a mineral bottle on wheels

the GIFI float and crowd

then, maybe 40 or 50 minutes later ....

the first part of the peleton rushes through

then, maybe 40 or 50 minutes later ....

more peleton labours its way along the race road

france  

new! Cathedrale Saint-Gatien at Tours  

 updated: Romanesque churches and cathedrals in south-west France

 the perpendicular or English style of cathedral  

the fire at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris

cathedral giants - Amiens and Beauvais

Stone tracery in church and cathedral construction 
stone in church and cathedral construction

stained glass and cathedrals in Normandy  

fortified churches, mostly in Les Landes

cathedral labyrinths and mazes in France
using metal in gothic cathedral construction

Germans in France
cathedral destruction during the French revolution, subsidiary page to Germans in France

on first arriving in France - driving
France is not England
paying at the péage (toll station)

Transbordeur bridges in France and the world 2: focus on Portugalete, Chicago, Rochefort-Martrou
Gustave Eiffel’s first work: the Eiffel passerelle, Bordeaux
a fifth bridge coming to Bordeaux: pont Chaban-Delmas, a new vertical lift bridge

France’s western isles: Ile de Ré
France’s western iles: Ile d’Oleron

Ile de France, Paris: in the context of Abelard and of French cathedrals
short biography of Pierre (Peter) Abelard

Marianne - a French national symbol, with French definitive stamps

la Belle Epoque
Grand Palais, Paris

Pic du Midi - observing stars clearly, A64
Carcassonne, A61: world heritage fortified city

Futuroscope
Vulcania
Space City, Toulouse

the French umbrella & Aurillac

50 years old: Citroën DS
the Citroën 2CV: a French motoring icon

the forest as seen by Francois Mauriac, and today
Les Landes, places and playtime
roundabout art of Les Landes

Hermès scarves

bastide towns
mardi gras! carnival in Basque country
country life in France: the poultry fair

what a hair cut! m & french pop/rock

Le Tour de France: cycling tactics