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It was created for the Tour de France cycling commentators, containing historical and tourist information for each stage and landmark. It was a massive, homemade book given to only a few cycling commentators, and was not available to the public.
Which they call the speakers guide to the Tour de France tourists and historical information.
— Episode: Mini-Stories : Volume 14
Episode: Mini-Stories : Volume 14
It was created for the Tour de France cycling commentators, containing historical and tourist information for each stage and landmark. It was a massive, homemade book given to only a few cycling commentators, and was not available to the public.
Which they call the speakers guide to the Tour de France tourists and historical information.
So it's basically a guidebook to the French countryside except it's designed exclusively for Phil and like a handful of other people who are cycling commentators for the tour.
Like exclusively for them like meaning that they printed it just for them Like it's not available to the general public at all
It's basically just like this giant homemade book with like hundreds of hundreds of pages
And every year when the tour route is announced the following year in October It's her job to drive every inch of the route all two and a half to three and a half thousand miles of it and basically document all of the points of interest that the cameras might linger on during the race every chateau every palace every gardens the mountains the floor and the fauna and put it all in this book