Today saw the Tour of Britain arrive in London and I set out unneccessarily early to see the Tour cross Tower Bridge. It was a good opportunity to give my camera a decent work out. Some of the photos are OK, but others aren’t. Have a look below, and also my Flickr stream (Why does the Flickr Uploader not pay attention to actual dates in the EXIF data in the JPEGs? All the photos are out of sequence in a seemingly random manner).



A couple of nice landmark photos there…

Martin Pedersen, of CSC – General Classification Winner

Andy Schleck, of CSC – King of the Mountains Winner

Mark Cavendish of T-Mobile receives his green points jersey.

The winners spray the crowd with their champagne.
Overall, this was a good fun day out. I was not on my own by travelling around the course on bike. Less than a year now until the Tour de France reaches these parts on a very similar course. The only thing I would say is that I think that the police might have closed some of the roads a little earlier than they did. There were still cars crossing Tower Bridge less than five minutes before the pelleton came through.
In other news, Nicole Cooke was today crowned as the World Cup Champion, in the same year that she has already La Grande Boucle – the female version of the Tour de France. If there’s any more deserving winner of Sports Personality of the Year, I don’t know who it is. Certainly not David Walliams anyway.