S10 Ep144: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 4: Ayr – Greenock
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Then it's back on the road, past the golf courses that decorate the Ayrshire coast, on the roads that made the Girvan one of the toughest stage races in Britain, and via an extraordinary – if brief – Elvis impression by Simon. We also talk Graeme Obree with Edward Pickering, author of the book The Race Against Time, and get our first glimpse of the Clyde as we arrive at Greenock Morton FC.
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| 0:00.0 | We might need to... |
| 0:02.0 | Well, you can ask for it and you give it any borrowed. |
| 0:06.0 | You join us in a pub in air after stage three of the Tour de Coss. |
| 0:10.0 | We've polished off a Sunday road for our dinner and we've ordered a sweet pizza |
| 0:15.0 | which would horrify Chiro and for that matter all Italian. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, well that's alright. There we are. There we are. |
| 0:20.0 | Take that. Thank you. I mean, that wasn't the term we convincing, yes there. |
| 0:23.0 | But Simon, just describe using words what we've ordered for dessert. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm struggling for words but it's... |
| 0:35.0 | Well, we thought it leapt out on the menu to me. |
| 0:39.0 | It was a nine inch pizza, dessert pizza. |
| 0:46.0 | And it said it had bananas, Nutella, marshmallows, strawberries, chocolate chips. |
| 0:56.0 | It's something to behold. |
| 1:00.0 | And it's arrived. There are no bananas though. |
| 1:02.0 | I mean, we've got about 40 bananas in the van so we could have brought our own. |
| 1:07.0 | But I think we've probably been... I mean, I think I've blurred vision from the potassium. |
| 1:13.0 | From with all the bananas I've had today. But no, I think I've got to take a picture of this dessert pizza. |
| 1:19.0 | We asked the lady what she thought of it prior to ordering and she just said it smells nice. |
| 1:27.0 | It does smell nice. It does look extremely sweet. |
| 1:31.0 | And we've all said none of us really have a sweet tooth so this could be a challenge. |
| 1:37.0 | But let's give it a go. |
| 1:40.0 | Stage 4 of the Tour de Casse takes us past Prestwick Golf Course where the first open championship was played. |
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