Tour de Romandie in Geneva

The Tour de Romandie began on Tuesday with a 3.6km prologue in Martingy in Valais, which is about 90km due east of Geneva as the crow flies. Today the tour left Martingy to head north in to Vaud, through Montreaux up to Bulle near the southern end of Lac de la Gruyere and then south again, throug Chateau-d'Oex and Gstaad, over the top of Col du Pillon (a category 1 climb) to end in Leysin.
The tour continues until Sunday, when it arrives in Geneva at about 2.30pm after a 165km ride from Champagne on Lac de Neuchatel.  The riders will arrive in Geneva on the Lausanne road and rush round the end of the lake to sprint finish at the Quai Gustave Ador.

Daddy's knee 2 weeks after falling off his bike

I'm hoping that somehow I can convince the family to come with me to watch the finish, there's no need for them to be as excited as I am, but it would be nice if they came with. The big one has just started learning to ride a bicycle. She likes imitating her Daddy as she rides her bicycle, eagerly putting her right arm out to indicate when she is turning, though she doesn't turn, and hilariously trying to free wheel, though she comes to an almost instant halt.
However she gets very upset when she crashes off the bicycle, which happens about ten times a day. I tell her that even her daddy, and her daddy's heroes, Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins fall off their bicycles. Then I show her the scabs on my knee I got from getting my front wheel stuck in a tramline and crashing to the floor and I point out that falling off is only part of the learning process, everyone does it. I'm hoping that Brad will be at the finish on Sunday, sadly Cav is not on the tour, but I can at least show off to her one of her cycling heroes to be. The only thing I can anticipate is that after Sunday she will insist on cycling in her UV swim suit, the nearest thing I can think of to the lycra outfits she will see on Sunday. We'll have to see about that. By Sunday we should have a new shiny bicycle, so I expect she'll want to show that off to the riders as well.

Let me know if you are planning to head to the finish line, or caught another stage elsewhere.