How I fell in love with the Tour De france

In my memory it was always warm on my special radio days, and the back garden always bathed in sunlight. With my very white skin that would mean I would get a tremendous sunburn very fast. I had way too much experience with that.In July, I never fell for the enticing lure of sunbathing. I had better plans in front of the house, the shadow side.I took one of the folding garden chairs, metal with a faded linen seat, and installed it on the small patio in front of the house.I went back in and got a small bench that was perfect to rest your feet on, grabbed a glass of lemonade, a book and the most important of the whole mission: my transistor radio. I loved that thing. It had an aluminium and brown front and the controls were on the top. It had a long antenna and a handle to hold it on.I installed myself, set down the radio, turned it on, searched for the radio station and when I found it, I smiled.Radio Tour de France.The funny thing is, I started to listen to Radio Tour de France for…