Originally Posted by
Claude.fr
Salut Unterhausen ( do you live in a cave sous des maisons?)
Tour de France French riders are a minority, it never impacted its popularity.
I don't see anything wrong about listing places where you can stop. There is a real disadvantage to stopping away from the controls, so I doubt anyone is going to be flooded with people who need to sleep.
There have been route changes because towns didn't like all the lights coming through at all hours. Plus the boulangeries are quickly sold out during PBP (I just made this up, but I have often wondered about it).
Villaines-la-Juhel has a 4 day party during PBP, not too many other places do that.
My real name is a word for basement. So my username is a bad translation into German that someone used to call my father. I always thought it was funny.