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Rest Day 1: Everything to gain

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We did it. We made it to the first rest day of the Tour de France. It took ten days but we got there. 

Caley, Jonny, and Iain sit down in Toulouse to answer your rest day questions. 

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Tor Daily podcast, everybody. I'm Kaylee Fretz. It's the rest day. It's first rest. It took us forever to get to this rest day.

0:23.3

We've had ten stages already. We're half-ish, halfway-ish through the race.

0:29.3

Let's normally we wait to set the scene, but let's just set the scene first thing because it is the rest day, and that's kind of what we do.

0:35.4

Johnny Long, can you set the scene for me?

0:39.5

I'm going to hand over to Ian because we've had complaints of Ian Eurasia and the free Ian

0:43.1

movement grows every passing day so I'm on

0:45.4

I'm on high alert. I completely forgot

0:47.5

he was here.

0:49.9

He's going to take that to heart now.

0:52.9

I'll just go back home.

0:55.2

Ian, set the scene for me.

0:57.0

So Johnny found a Vietnamese restaurant, which is great.

1:02.4

Like, love Vietnamese food.

1:03.6

Here it comes.

1:05.0

It is not the vibeest place in Toulouse.

1:09.6

It's sort of on a patio kind of thing behind a supermarket or a shopping center.

1:14.9

Next to a hotel.

1:16.2

It's Toulouse's answer to the London's Barbican.

1:20.1

The London's Barbican, London's the Barbican.

1:22.3

That is it.

1:23.0

It's like 1960s.

1:25.9

Brutalist architecture.

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