Le Tour de Yorkshire

As the Tour de France comes to Yorkshire, perhaps we should address the language problems with a little translation guide. For instance 'Bonjour' is of course French for ''Ow do?' And 'Le cycle helmet' translates as 'T'at.' Some other translations you may be less familiar with are......
'Je suis tres excite' - 'I'm reet chuffed'; 'Les drugs pour l'enhancement du performance' - 'Chips'; 'Les cycle shorts' - 'Y'call them britches?' and finally my personal favourites.... 'La course a commence' - 'Sommat's 'appened' and 'Un accident terrible' - 'By 'eck' (typical Yorkshire understatement.)

Even the animals are dressing up for the occasion.

Buildings are getting makeovers as businesses prepare for an influx of tourists.....

.....hopefully tourists with deep pockets and an urge to spend 'le cash.'

(Yes, I thought that was really Nora Batty for a moment too...but it's a cardboard cutout!)

Let's not worry too much at the moment that this is a sport more complicated than cricket and more punishing than a five set tennis match with Novak Djokovic twice a day...every day, and just enjoy the fact that some great sportsman and lots of tourists are coming to these shores for a top notch sporting event.

                                                                                                                                 Tracey