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Thank you. Terms Apply. Always read your policy docs. opening the window and leaning out to take in the view outside the bedroom window in this lovely hotel I'm staying in just outside the little village of

Galleol which itself is only a 10 minute drive from today's stage finish.

And I've just returned from a long run through the woods, stopping occasionally at the information signs that were periodically erected by the side of the stony path that ran through the woods which explained in quite a lot of detail actually things

I didn't know about the local tree felling lumber timber industry and because these woods around here

in the in this high plateau at a thousand metres where the race finishes today are absolutely covered

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