Early morning in Bourg-de-Péage.
Belle is shopping for the picnic tomorrow.
In Pascalis bakery, she stocks up on pogne ( a brioche in the shape of a crown).
As she is leaving the bakery she bumps into Arne-Doppelganger.
It is not accidental.
Belle! says Arne-Doppelganger. I have something to tell you. Do not be worried.
You've lost Terence, says Belle.
Not exactly, says Arne-Doppelganger. He wanted to stay in Valence.
And you let him! says Belle. How could you?
It's okay, says Arne-Doppelganger. He met a little friend there. On a building. It was so cute.
Ah, says Belle. Was it the Maison des Têtes?
House of Heads, yes, says Arne-Doppelganger.
I shouldn't have told him about it, says Belle.
It's okay, says Arne. We can go pick him up on the rest day.
What's he doing? asks Belle, shifting the pogne from one hand to another.
The little friend is showing him the heads, says Arne-Doppelganger. Wind, Fortune, Time, Theology and the Roman Emperors. The little friend was naked and holding a ribbon. Terence thought it was a snake.
Belle looks disapproving.
Arne-Doppelganger forges on with the story.
So Terence offered the little friend his shorts in return for the ribbon, says Arne-Doppelganger.
That was nice of him, says Belle tartly.
Not really, the shorts were bad smelling, says Arne-Doppelganger. Due to spots of urine.
Belle did not know about this. But Terence ought not to be dressed in a ribbon.
All right, I'll pick him up tomorrow, she says. I'm running late today. Are you coming to the picnic?
Sure am, says Arne-Doppelganger. Well, I must go too. This will be a hard day for Team Condor.
How true.
It's a hard day for everyone.
Geraint Thomas goes headlong through a fence at the side of the road, but is helped up again..
Peter Sagan only comes second .
Ruben Plaza Molina wins the stage.
Vincent Nibali gains nearly half a minute on Froomey.
Farky, the Nine Tenths Knowing Dog, gets all the credit for this, rather unfairly
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