Tour de France 2025 Stage 3: Valenciennes to Dunkirk A race to the coast. From the archive. Andy wrote this guide in spring 2025, ahead of the Grand Départ in Lille on 5 July 2025. We have kept it as he wrote it, as a record of how this site began. Stage 3: A Race to...
Tour de France 2025 Lille and the Grand Départ As you’ve probably gathered by now, cycling is what got me here in the first place. When the Tour de France announced it was starting in Lille, I couldn’t resist setting up a Facebook group to swap tips and updates with...
Tour de France 2025 Stage 1: Lille to Lille These are just my insights from living here and having visited most of the towns on the route. From the archive. Andy wrote this guide in spring 2025, ahead of the Grand Départ in Lille on 5 July 2025. We have kept it as he...
Tour de France 2025 Stage 2: Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer These are just my insights from living here and having visited most of the towns on the route. From the archive. Andy wrote this guide in spring 2025, ahead of the Grand Départ in Lille on 5 July 2025. We...
Grand Départ LilleFirst run in 1906, the Paris-Lille stage was a traditional curtain-raiser for the Tour de France.It was run on seven occasions on routes that were every bit as testing as Paris-Roubaix in the modern era! This was backed up by Georges Speicher’s stage...
