Hello and welcome to For the Love of Cycling here at the Giro d'Italia. My name is Ned Bolting and this bloke,

well what's your name? You can say it yourself, I'm not going to say it for you. Oh, you don't remember? No, I do remember. Jakopo Guarnieri. Yaquapo Guarnieri, lead out man par excellence. And just a little reminder of what happened today on stage one, a huge crash and a victory for Paul Manier, the young

Frenchman who becomes the first Maliaroza.

There's plenty to drill down and look at and think about in what happened today.

But let's just start, let's just start, Jakopo, by saying,

well, can I ask you, what did you make a Bulgaria? Is it your first visit to you because the race has started in Bulgaria? I think they, you need to know them, you know, because they kind of call the first, you know, they're not like, you know, we were in Albania last year and They're just loud, like the Italians, and we are loud.

They're a little bit more quiet, a little bit more Russian style in a way. I mean, don't get offended, but it's just like you need to get to know them. But today, for instance, we were at having food and they were fun and they brought like the cake from the granny, you know. Me and Massey, we had a cake from the granny and we were scared because if it was not good,

we had to finish anyway.

Do you know what?

Just between, I'm sitting here in a truck full of TV people, most of whom are Italian, many of whom

are Italian and this guy obviously is Italian.

But I can tell you that the amount of sort of like slight insecurity

about Bulgarian food amongst the Italian crew, the very fact that there's no olive oil, that

it's rapeseed oil that you put on your food here, it's not gone down well with the Italians.

But listen, it's a fascinating country, isn't it? And I think today on

stage one, we saw just how ancient this culture is, and we saw the wilds of the mountains

to the south of Burgas as you head towards the Turkish border. But we saw some other fascinating

stuff as well, didn't we? Yeah. And you mentioned the culture, but for me what stands out also,

it's like, the nature is so wild. I mean, you have so much space here. You feel like yesterday I was driving, and I was in a forest, and you felt like you have space a lot. If like nature, it's a place to be. And we are not really in the seaside season, I would say. Like, it was still quite cold today. But Burgas, I know, is packed in summer, you know? would you come here? Yeah, I would say, like it was still quite cold today, but that Burgas, I know, is packed

in summer, you know? Would you come here?

Yeah, I think I would. But I'm a big enthusiast about just about everywhere as well.

But yeah, it's been weirdly cold as well as sunny and a mixture of everything. Just one thing

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