If your one of many that follows the Tour De France then you better get yourself on a ferry to Rotterdam quickly because this year that’s the host city. We all know with the size of this event ferries and hotels will be hard to come by nearer the Grand Depart which is the 1st of July to the 4th.

This will be the fifth time that the Netherlands has hosted the biggest cycling event in the world and how proud they must be. We all know it should be a magnificent opening ceremony as the same as others have done in the past like Monaco in 2009 and also our own London in 2007.

In the coming up till this exciting tour starts  there will be all different stuff happening for the people of Rotterdam with the plan of “New Energy” well under way to get people back into fitness and to lead a healthier life style so as you can imagine the centre of Rotterdam will be rocking!
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Even though its scheduled in for the 1st of July the tour its self doesn’t get under way until the 3rd and will leave from Rotterdam Zuid. The following day the wearer of the yellow jersey will head the peloton as it sets out on the second stage from the Scheepvaartkwartier to the official starting line on the Erasmusbridge, a superb spot to give a send-off to the Tour competitors. After the Tour has completed Rotterdam it will head for Belgium to continue with this fantastic race.