Le Tour de France - Colmar: Friday, July 17th

My friends and I skipped class (sshhh) so we could see the Tour de France arrive in Colmar, a lovely town 30 minutes south of Strasbourg. (For the history buffs out there, Colmar is the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty).

It was an awful day, cold and raining the entire time. But it was worth the 5 ½ hours we stood in the rain just to see the riders fly by us.

the first place rider that day - Heinrich Haussler

the finish line

What I didn’t know was that the sponsors of the race come through beforehand and give away tons of free stuff like water bottles, candy, laundry detergent, baseball caps, newspapers, and the list goes on.

the caravan of bikes at the end