Well, the palm trees are now silhouetted against a clear blue sky that it is getting ever darker as evening begins to fall in the modern

Piazza in the centre of Pescarra here on the Adriatic coast

It's been a glorious sunny day and now the crowds are gathering in front of a vast stage with a colossal array of bright lights

that are shining down on its emptiness at the moment as the

anthems begin to play through the loudspeakers and echo around this Piazza

The Giro d'Italia is upon us and for the next three weeks everything here and everything on this podcast will get decidedly

Pink

Ciao Davide

Ciao Ned

Ciao Bella, Bella

You love it

I do, this is like two years ago where we set the alarm for frighteningly early every single day

Every single day we get a Giro d'Italia podcast

Remote

Remote podcast

Here we are again

I've got the doors, I've got a balcony

You know at the beginning of a grand tour and it always lulls you into a full sense of security

You have like sometimes three maybe even four nights in the same hotel

Especially if there's a it starts with a little prologue or something you know so that you don't jump on

And you're like, this is like as bad as I remember it

Exactly

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