The big storm closed Gatwick airport at lunch time for a short while, just long enough to stop our flight to Turin. We were given a flight from Heathrow to Paris, and then Paris to Turin the next day(with overnight accomodation thrown in.)Four hours later we arrived at Heathrow, our flight was delayed three hours. So,in Paris after midnight we only had three hours to check in. We slept on the floor.
At check in we were charged for excess luggage,Paul disagreed and asked for our luggage to be taken off the plane. So we missed that flight. Five hours later we arrived in Turin and were met by Gianfranco and after a bonkers two hour drive with Gianfranco at times with his specs over his sunglasses to see signs, we arrived at Entracque(pron.Entrakway) the village depart.
Gianfranco became a good friend, and was the man to know. He and the chef helped us out a lot.
The prologue itself consisted of ski run into the village. The course was about 1.5 km., with two 30%+ descents on grass!
A couple of km's climbing on asphalt to reach the start showed that three hours of sleep is not a good way to start an eight day race :-)
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