Tour de France Stage 12
July 14, 2005 (Bastille Day!)

Description

Lance Armstrong was in the yellow jersey for this stage, and ended up keeping it. It was nice to see an American wearing the yellow jersey on Bastille Day!

Photos

	Medium Large	Entrevaux, with the fort perched above on the hill
	Medium Large	The entrance to the town, which is a small bridge over a river
	Medium Large	The river
	Medium Large	View of the town from the trail up to the fort
	Medium Large	Small chapel in the fort. Note that the 'Jesus' on the crucifix is actually a log.
	Medium Large	The top level of the fort
	Medium Large	One of the valleys as seen from the fort
	Medium Large	Looking down at Entrevaux
	Medium Large	Another shot of Entrevaux, with the valley going off into the distance
	Medium Large	One more photo from the top of the fort
	Medium Large	Are you sure we're supposed to go down this dark, unmarked tunnel?
	Medium Large	Old drawbridge, which is now just a bridge
	Medium Large	We took the car up the road that we thought was a shortcut to where we wanted to be, ended up parking it...
	Medium Large	...and continued walking
	Medium Large	David V. scouted ahead...
	Medium Large	...and the rest of us followed. In the end, the road went nowhere and we returned to one of the main roads to see the race.
	Medium Large	The tour was preceeded by the 'Caravan,' which was basically a bunch of decorated cars and weird vehicles passing out free stuff. || || \/
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	Medium Large	The first rider, David Moncoutie, is somewhere among these vehicles
	Medium Large	There was a group of 7 riders a minute after Moncoutie, which I didn't get a picture of, then this group of 5 a few minutes later
	Medium Large	And here's the main peloton, with the Discovery Channel Team in the lead and Lance in the yellow jersey!
	Medium Large	More pictures of the peloton as it passes. See if you can pick out any riders you know. || || \/
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