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Ramblings of a retiree in France
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Fabio: 1st French MotoGP World Champion
Musical Monday has been bumped to Tuesday for a very good reason. Those of us who live on the Cote d’Azur and love MotoGP, including the Mayor of Nice, are celebrating the first ever French MotoGP World Champion, local wunderkind Fabio Quartararo. Notre champion… Continue Reading “Fabio: 1st French MotoGP World Champion”
Sheree’s sporting and personal highlights: 2019
Welcome to 2020! We’ve now left the teens behind. As we enter another decade, I look back on the past year. Generally this post is only about my sporting highlights but this year I had a personal one that I thought was worth mentioning… Continue Reading “Sheree’s sporting and personal highlights: 2019”
Sheree’s 2018 Sporting Highlights
It’s always tricky distilling a year’s viewing of a number of sports into a few high points, but I’m going to try. You might be surprised at the results but, then again, you might not! 1. Rudy Molard’s stage victory in Paris-Nice There’s really… Continue Reading “Sheree’s 2018 Sporting Highlights”
El número siete
I appreciate that the professional peloton has been racing in China and Japan last week, but my interest in cycling concludes with Il Lombardia. Coincidentally this is generally when the race for the blue-riband crown in MotoGP comes to the boil. It was another… Continue Reading “El número siete”
Sheree’s 2017 Sporting Highlights
I’ve been a bit slow off the mark here largely because I’ve been out enjoying myself in the snow! As usual there were many lowlights in 2017 – no need to depress ourselves by listing them – but I’ve always been a glass half full… Continue Reading “Sheree’s 2017 Sporting Highlights”
Postcard from Mugello
I love lying in bed listening to birdsong. I find it really uplifting. So I was delighted to discover our chosen hotel lay slap bang in the middle of a Tuscan forest full of trilling birds. Yes, we were back in Italy again. This… Continue Reading “Postcard from Mugello”
It doesn’t get better than this!
Sunday, after a delicious vegetable chilli for lunch (recipe to follow shortly), my beloved and I settled down for a feast of sporting action. First up, the conclusion of a thrilling Volta a Catalunya dominated by the evergreen Movistarlet Alejandro Valverde. Next up was a… Continue Reading “It doesn’t get better than this!”
Sheree’s 2016 Sporting Highlights
Wishing you all good health, much happiness and every success in 2017. There were so many lowlights in 2016 – no need to depress ourselves by listing them – but I’ve always been a glass half full kinda gal and still found much to… Continue Reading “Sheree’s 2016 Sporting Highlights”
Can’t get enough
Yesterday morphed into an almost perfect day of sporting pleasure. I dropped my beloved off at the airport and, as the sun was shining, decided an early ride was in order. It was a perfect weather for a ride. I wasn’t the only one to… Continue Reading “Can’t get enough”
Sheree’s Sporting Highlights of 2012
With blogging over on VeloVoices absorbing much of my free time, I’ve not really mentioned much about my sporting year. And when I say “my” I mean the one I watched either in person or on the television. So in no particular order, here’s… Continue Reading “Sheree’s Sporting Highlights of 2012”
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