TDF 2024 – Greater Albertville

Tour de France LogoI stated in my previous Tour de France 2024 post:

“As base camp for my Tour de France 2024, Albertville is as strategically located as is Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.”

If you look at the map of the area, you’ll understand why: it’s riddled with climbs.

I’ve marked a lot of them, some more famous than others.

The (more) famous ones and/or those on VeloViewer’s “100 Greatest” should end up on the “must do list” and I’ll construct stages with them later on.

However, there are many, many more.

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Announcing the Tour de France 2024

Tour de France LogoThe Tour de France 2024 official route has just been revealed and I’m certainly going to be watching that with great interest.

And I will leave discussing the ins and outs and possible scenarios for potential (stage) winners to more capable bloggers out there…

More interesting for my followers – or so I keep telling myself, but who am I kidding? – would be the announcement my own Tour de France 2024.

Yes, I would prefer another Giro d’Italia, but that means I will have to forfeit (many) cycling adventures to be able to be finance that in a few years.

So, I’m happy to announce that the location of the Tour de France 2024 base camp will be in…

* drumroll *

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