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Hello, Lionel here. This is our final regular episode of 2021 and so on behalf of Richard, Daniel and the entire cycling podcast family, I'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

And most importantly, say thank you for listening to us over the past 12 months.

Once again, the three grand tours formed the cornerstone of our coverage and if you missed our recent Anas Galaxicas episode, we thought we'd transport you back to the summer with our highlights from the Giro Tour of Vuelta.

We'll be back with our first regular episode of 2022 in mid-January but in the meantime, friends of the podcast can delve into our Christmas selection box which you can unwrap on Christmas Day.

To sign up as a friend of the podcast, go to thecyclingpodcast.com. There are already more than 50 episodes on the feed and subscribers can now listen to those episodes on Spotify too.

Watch in the Christmas selection box. Well, something for everyone we hope kicking off with a love letter to cycling magazines following the news of pro-cycling's demise.

Richard looks back at 10 years of the Green Edge team, now known as Bike Exchange of course. There's a fireside chat with the Lizzy Banks and Ian Boswell. We find out more about the man behind the Tour of Britain and Women's Tour, Mick Bennett.

James sure explains why you should never give up on your dream. There's another installment of our Young Rider Diaries with Mayo, Red and Joe. And Daniel tells the incredible story of Gabriel Mula.

These episodes will be released one day at a time starting on Christmas Day. Before all that, how about a familiar burst of Amalotella and a trip back to May to join Richard and Daniele Freeber and Chini at the Jura Detalia?

I'm off to wrap some presents.

Well, that's wonderful to hear that music again isn't it? Daniel looks familiar. My familiar Amalotella, how many years has this art?

Six years, six jiro with Amalotella Coatsy as our centric, Daniele Freeber and Chini.

And we're also joined by a mystery guest tonight and he's sitting here. Brian Neigarge, hello Brian.

Hey Jeff, thank you for having it.

So I'm just to make sure I understand here. Are we drinking two different champagne?

It is just the staff and I'm really happy to be here.

To her be most importantly, we're in Turin and we're in Fia. Where are you taking me?

Okay, so we're going to the first of coffee, Monimuth and Kosocazare.

Even by your standards Daniel, this is a bit weird.

Very much like some big stuffed animals but no food for us. No cobra, but he might be coming.

I was no tourist. For better or worse, I had business in their group so my destination was a remote town of Castell de Sangro which some contend these castle of blood in a local dialect.

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