The route of the 2025 Tour de France won’t be announced until the 29th October (and we’ll be there in Paris for the big reveal). However, we’ve been around long enough to put 2 and 2 together (from official and unofficial channels) and make some educated guesses. So here goes for our 2025 (completely guessed) highlights!…

 

1. VENTOUX: If the 2025 Tour doesn’t go up Mt Ventoux next summer, we’ll eat our chapeau. It featured 5 times between 2000 and 2016 but not since so we’re well overdue a visit. When Ventoux features, it’s a double-treat because firstly, we get a really fun, bucket list climb and secondly, we’re guaranteed at least a couple of Provencal stages… sunflowers, lavender, sunshine!

 

2. D DAY BEACHES: We know what’s happening on stage 10 (see 3. below) so we’re pretty confident that between the Grand Depart stages in the north east we’ll head west via the D Day beaches. These stages will be marked by gorgeous coastline, quiet not-too-hilly routes, plenty of pretty little Normandy villages and the obvious historical significance of passing many 2nd World War hisorical sites in 2025, the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

 

3. MUR DE BRETAGNE: There’s always a big stage on the 14th July (French Bastille Day) which falls on a Monday. So this means the first rest day will be moved to a Tuesday rather than a Monday and stage 10, unusually falling before the rest day, will need to be special. And what better way to celebrate cycling culture, Brittany as a cycling mecca and a 100% French Tour than the Mur de Bretagne?! We know the Mur de Bretagne will feature in 2025… the only question is whether we’ll go up once or twice?!

 

4. We’re slightly less willing to call the Pyrenean and Alpine stages yet – although Bourg d’Oisans (the town at the bottom of Alpe d’Huez) and Superbagneres (near Bagneres de Luchon) have both written cryptic teaser-tweets so the odds are on there.