Good morning from the Dolomites. What a day it's going to be. The sun is gradually coming

out. It's rained heavily overnight but the rain has cleared now. The clouds are lifting

and all around the Dolomites where their jagged peaks are. Holy interview, it's going

to be a spectacle today. I'm just walking down to Val de Zoldor, looking forward to

stay J18.

Right, well, opposite me is a huge rotating Kibab situation with flames licking at meat

at the end of the day. I don't know, I might go up and have a sniff because normally

when a barbecue smoke wafts towards you, you can discern by virtue of our noses.

Whether it's chicken, whether it's maybe pork, maybe lamb steak, but I just don't know. It's

difficult to say from here. You're looking at it and you're frowning and squinting. I've

already been up close and I think we're just going to have to say it to animal. It's animal

based. We're talking yesterday, weren't we, about plant based. It's definitely not substitute

great, so we're here at the finish line in Val de Zoldor and I tell you what, that last

little climb that doesn't look that too much on the road book actually is quite tough

in it. Just through the, we reckon Juala Mater will attack, inspired by the 1900 meters

to go pants sign, because he's heavily associated with that particular brand, isn't he, on this

edition of the year, and that will be his trigger to go, I think.

Yeah, I mean imagine if that, there's two opportunities, Salvo 1, into Missy Uomo, 900

meters to go, and Salvo 2, 400 meters later, because they've doubled up with the sponsorship

and like 1500 meters and 900 meters, but yeah, in all seriousness, that last, there's

a lot of stuff densely packed, I know we're going into, veering into punditry mode, but

it's worth saying, because this could be an exceptionally decisive stage. That first

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