Last month we attended a wedding just south of Barcelona, along the route of the second stage of next year's Tour.

So that means the peloton will pass the spot where I fell flat on my face and cut myself to shreds trying to retrieve a flat football from a sheugh. The TV cameras better pick it out

Giro vibes

Highlights from last night's Giro team presentation included half of Movistar zooming about on the same Lime scooter, a man spending 20 minutes taking a selfie with his cat, and my interview with Anna van der Breggen being interrupted by security moving barriers... to make way for Wolfie the mascot

Is there a bike race happening in France at the minute?

Because here in beautiful (and occasionally thundery) Bergamo, it's all about the Giro d'Italia Women

Forget Pogačar, Kopecky, and Flanders.

Last night, Peter Sagan dug out the John Travolta get-up and danced the quickstep to 'You're The One That I Want'. That's proper cycling heritage

De Ronde...

And yes, I am once again horribly, horribly sunburnt

Is it really the Dublin 'cross if you're not caked in mud and your teeth aren't chattering?

(PS. Please contact me via email with any photography enquiries - Yes, those are Fem van Empel's blurry arms)