Bristol
Very good, a nice ride and the photography policy was a bit more relaxed, AFAIK none of the the snappers took the p*ss which probably helped, about 90% (and I'm not kidding) of the gawpers were Chinese, there were hoardes of them, to be fair they were well behaved and tended to do what they were told. Out of the Chinese a hell of a lot were young women, I cannot quite get my head around this, do Oriental(Asian) men have tiny cocks, are they fascinated by relatively big dongs, they were always asking for photos with men (of which most men were very happy to oblige!).
The weather was stonking.
The start of the ride from a snappers perspective was a balls up, they went the wrong way (they followed last year's route) from that advertised. The ride was very long and strung out and those at the back followed the advertised route so they got split up. I couldn't catch up with them and almost gave up, I then saw them going up a completely random street and rushed over to get some shots. After that I decide to go for the Millennium Square and City Hall as I knew they would be there, I was later told they picked up the advertised route again, drat, i could have got some more shots. After that I legged it back to the pub to get some final shots
But overall a great ride. One day I'll do it myself, as the riders seem to have a hell of a lot more fun than the snappers!
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