Le Tour De France

[pip24]

Can anyone give me more detailed information of the route and villages passed through on the stage 18  Cahor to Angouleme , than there is on the Le Tour website.

[Cassis]

There's absolutely bog all on the official site or anywhere else that I have seen, other than to say it is 210km stage from Cahors to Angoulême.

By careful perusal of the crummy routemap on the official site and comparing it with ViaMichelin, I think that the following approximates the route -

Cahors to Angoulême Link

However, I make no promises!  If that's no good, you could contact www.cyclingnews.com

[Stefan]

It's not available anywhere yet. As is the tradition, you won't get the official, detailed, town by town, junction by junction route until about 2 months before the "off", when it will be on the Official site.

[TreizeVents]

Looks like Stefan is quicker than I am, but I wrote all this anyway, so here it is.

Usually, with a few exceptions, the precise route is not known to the

general public for a while yet.  But it is actually known to some people right

now.  You won't get anything from the cyclingnews.com site, they don't

know either.  But for example, the Montpellier Gazette has published,

this week,  the exact route for the finsh and start in that town.  And

my maire knows the exact route, and it has been published in the local

rag.  So we know that the route is not going through our actual town,

but bypassing it by going up a small climb and rejoining the main and

obvious route past our town.  So if you are curious if it goes through

your town you can ask the mayor, he or she knows for sure, as of last

week.  The same goes if there is an obvious route near you.  Ask a

mayor on the route.  The mairie will have the entire map for that day. 

Although the route suggested by Cassis, or rather for a car by

Michelin, MIGHT be the route, but sometimes they take a slight

deviation to take account of works in a town (like ours) or a neat

little hill to climb near the end or some other detour.  The route for that day is 210k and the Michelin route is 212, so, could be the one.   So ask the

mayors.  You won't find it anywhere else on a turn by turn basis.

And don't miss it.  If you are looking for souvenirs then on a flat

route, its best to be at the feeding station.  More action.  If you

want the calm approach, scout out a good cafe for the day.  Best yet,

find a slightly elevated spot where you can see for some distance, and have a nice picnic under a tree.  Be prepared for awful greedy behaviour if you are at the feed station or anywhere in a crowd, where the families are desparate to accumulate free tat.  The kids do it for themselves, and the adults team up "for the kids". 

[pip24]

Thanks for the information. No wonder I couldn't find anything other than the basic route !.     I will look again in a few months.

[pip24]

Just a memory jogger for those waiting for the final details. they are out today on the le Tour site.