You're listening to the cycling podcast at the 2024 Tour de France with Mitch

Docker, Richard Abraham and Graham W Wiggs. Today we're in Sant'emore.

Well, gents, we've escaped to the chateau, haven't we?

Should we get straight into it?

And Richard, you've done a little bit of research into exactly where we are,

or shall I start us off and say, I can tell you that it's known as

Le Petique-Cacasson. The Petique-Cocasson, one of the best preserved 14th century Renaissance chateau in all of France and we're here kind of by

accident aren't we because our our planned accommodation cancelled with 24 hours notice or so, prompting a bit of a scramble

last night and some mysterious, not quite clear messages from Lionel about what accommodation

we might be up in. I mean, Bravo, Lionel, thank you very

much for finding this at short notice because we're sat outside the moat at the moment on a little

terrace and it's classic French chateau isn't it?

It really is 1467 did we decide?

That's the entry code, so.

It was the date that it was built.

Yeah.

Turrets, a Port Kullis, gargoyles, those little arrow windows, a moat.

It's got a, I want to say draw bridge,

but it's not that, it's got one of those gates that go down,

like with the spikes on the bottom?

Poor colors.

Yeah, is that what that's called?

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