Right, it's rest day and what a rest day it is. Gary Imlack, you're here, what are you doing here? You're on the podcast.

I've just to prove that rest days contain only homeopathic dilutions of actual rest. So here we are at the end of a long sweaty day getting, well, you mostly

actually getting the interviews on the rest day. Here we are slumped against a wall by the toilets

in the press centre. Where could be finer?

Wow. It was really sat the scene there. What beautiful imagery.

Talk about setting the scene. You set the scene for the interviews, most of which consisted of people like Greg Van Arbamatt and John Dagencob saying, well, as I've said now, to at least 200 of you people over the past 24 hours in more or less these very words.

But hey, it is rest day and they get a chance to and actually john dagon cobb

yesterday could barely get a coherent word out at all so it was just to shake hands with the great

man and that but you know it's you can you can sort of you know you can sort of rank riders in

terms of you know their characters by how they deal with you when you're just trying to collar them on a rest day when they could easily say, listen, mate, we're off on our training ride now. We've got a press conference at 3.30. Why don't you just give me five minutes peace for once in my bloody life? Whereas, in fact, Greg Van Arvimar, he clicked out of the hotel on his cleats and you collared him and he was fine.

And John Dagen Cobb was fine.

He was there with his wife and children.

So, I mean, you know, they're nice people and you try not to abuse their hospitality.

But, no, they did as proud today.

Well, Chris, I feel I'm abusing your hospitality.

What's your rest day consisted of so far at the Tour of France?

Well, we got in about half-past 12 from the airport last night.

In the morning.

The mammoth transfer.

Which country did you fly into that of interest, Chris?

We had a selection of countries.

We actually came out to the airport in France,

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