Tour de France 2010: Not South Enough

Unlike last year, the Tour de France won't pedal through the French Riviera in 2010.

Instead of Monaco, the happening tour will take off from the south side of Rotterdam beginning on July 3rd 2010. Then it dashes south, heads to nearby Gap and Sisteron and moves west to reach the Pyrenées and the leg-burner peak of Col du Tourmalet.

So no TdF craze for the Côte d'Azur this year, outside of gatherings around pubs and friends' with big screen TVs. 

More info on the Tour de France 2010, check out the very complete LeTour site: http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html