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You're listening to Girovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2023 Giro di Tavia.

Hello and joining you once again this week from London, where on Saturday afternoon, King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories will roll down the start ramp of Buckingham Palace and complete the two races.

The two-point-one kilometre journey to Westminster Abbey board the alarmingly unerrodynamic but hydraulic suspension equipped diamond-jubilee state coach.

A couple of hours before the first leader of the Giro di Tavia is crowned in Pescara, who knows it could be King Kong.

My name is Daniel Freibatt and I'm the host of this 2023 Giro preview episode, which I'll be joined by the same podcast royalty that will be accompanying me on my and your three-week journey to Rome.

Taking his place in the cycling podcast state coach, the Camilla to my Charles is a man who we're going to do our best to rough up a little bit over the next three weeks until now he's belonged to the landed gentry of professional cycling as a press officer at CSC Green Edge and Sky, their manager of Leopard Trek.

This will be his first full race in cattle class among the great unwashed of the press room literally unwashed in some cases. Brian Nygard, Brian, are you going to give you your proper Danish pronunciation on the Giro?

Brian Nygard, what can you call you that? Are you ready to shed your golden robes alongside me in our theatre or I don't know what we're going to get to Toyota something probably over the next three weeks?

I'm extremely ready. I don't have a car myself. We're all cycling family here in Tuscany. Actually this is the most ready I've felt for a Giro in a very long time, most prepared.

Where you need to be roughed up Brian, I see you've got your two-week stubble there, you're rocking that just in preparation.

I'm totally ready. It's always been a little bit frugal with you and the freemium.

Definitely not when you're on board, unfortunately. Could do with being a bit more frugal I think.

The next co-hosts of course requires no introduction. No oath of allegiance or souvenir cushion covers in his honour. You're almost spat out.

I was going to say souvenir mug. You're almost spat out. He's drinking from a lovely stasis night and mug more on that later.

He requires no introduction, no oath of allegiance. I'm sure there would be a market for souvenir, line of Bernie cushion covers however.

They've not gone into production yet. He's our unelected but unopposed head of state. He is line of Bernie.

Hello Daniel. Plates maybe with my big face on just to put everybody off their evening meal.

Big spaghetti plays. You could dump your spaghetti on there with a big dollop of sauce on top of disgusts before how until two or three years ago you weren't actually mixing in the sauce.

No, no, no, no. That's just a relaxed and volinate. I do like volinates on the top rather than stirred in so you get a bit more...

Other pasta sauces got to be stirred through, hasn't it? But no, it could...

It persuade people to cut down on their portion sizes, couldn't it? A plate with my big face on. Once you start seeing too much of the face you know you've had enough dinner.

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