Originally Posted by
olbod
Well, the race is off to a good start.
Leeds to Harrowgate.
The scenery is just beautiful.
A couple of things amazed me tho, first was the rock walls all over the place, not a star picket in sight. These walls ran for mile after mile along roadsides and across paddocks, cheez, must have taken years to build.
I can only imagine that something on this scale could only be built by slaves or people on 457 visas.
I would be surprised if there was a spare stone left anywhere lying around in the country.
The other thing I noticed that was very evident and ideal was the telegraph poles, or the lack of them.
Mile after mile along the roadsides there were no poles or very few.
Passing homesteads and such I could not see many poles.
In the towns and villages they were evident but out in the country side they were few and far between. It looked nice and pristene.
Forgot who won the stage ( I usually do ) but there was a prang at the finish. Mark Cavendish came a gutsa. He fell really heavily, I dont know if he broke anything.
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