Another hot day.
The teams ride out of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblet.
And who was Saint Léonard?
If we listen in, someone may tell us.
Team Condor rolls by.
Ranger Roger: I've got a good rhyme for carrot.
Sweezus: Me too.
Ranger Roger: It's not the same one is it?
Sweezus: Better not be.
Arthur: What is it? Let me guess. Parrot?
Ranger Roger: That's it. The only problem is...
Sweezus: I know. Why refer to a parrot?
Arthur: Was yours parrot?
Sweezus: Yeah, mine was parrot, but I'm open to suggestions.
Arthur: Les carottes des couleurs anciennes....
Sweezus: Bugger off, Arthur.
Arthur buggers off, eventually catching up with the breakaway.
Michael Woods: Hey Arthur! Found your legs today?
Arthur: I just got told to bugger off.
Pierre Latour: Stick with us then.
Arthur: Thanks. Do you guys do poetry competitions?
Matej Mohoric: No. Some of us have to work
Arthur: Good point. Me too.
Arthur drops back.
He draws level with Team Philosophe, who are preparing themselves for the climb up Puy de Dome, by eating leftover carottes.
But not talking about carottes.
Vello: Been up the front, Arthur? You look knackered.
Arthur: Mm.
Vello: Pierre-Louis was just telling us about Saint Léonard de Noblet.
Gaius: Yes, a most interesting saint. The patron saint of prisoners.
David: Pray to him, and your chains fall away.
Arthur: Best not pray to him then.
Gaius: Ha ha, good one Arthur. We don't want our chains falling away.
Pierre-Louis: He was also the patron saint of pregnant women.
Vello: You don't say? I wonder how that came about?
Pierre-Louis: And diseases of cattle.
David: The patron saint of diseases of cattle?
Pierre-Louis: I imagine you prayed to him if your cattle....
Vello: ....were diseased. That would be it. What an all-rounder!
They are now at the base of the Puy de Dome, and need to concentrate their efforts.
Although, Michael Woods (1st), Pierre Latour (2nd) and Matej Mohoric (3rd) have already done it.
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