30 years after the last start in Germany (1987, Berlin), "Le Grand Départ" from the Tour de France took place in Duesseldorf, the city I study in. I took the chance and went to visit the first stage of the tour, a 14 km time trial through the centre of the city! Enjoy some impressions from the cyclists and furthermore pictures from the funny and cool cars and trucks of the sponsors who participated in the advertising caravan right before the start of "Le tour".
BIC (they actually threw Pens and Lighters)
Bostik (Adhesive fabricant)
Century 21
DHL (If someone is still waiting for his package to arrive, its propably in this car here ;-) / falls einer von euch noch ein Paket vermisst, vielleicht hat es den Weg aus diesem Fahrzeug nicht gefunden)
Direct Energie (throwing frisbees / haben Frisbees in die Menge geworfen)
Generation Peche
Haribo (Luckily they threw lots of sweets! / Glücklicherweise hatte Haribo eine Menge Süßigkeiten für uns alle dabei!)
J'optimisme
Kleber (I was really impressed by those giant tires! / Die riesigen Reifen haben mich sehr beeindruckt, sah cool aus!)
Krys
McCain (unfortunately there were no fires thrown... / Leider wurden keine Pommes geworfen...)
Mickie Mouse (Pretty cool that they threw a special comic! / Sehr cool, es gab einen neuen einzigartigen Comic!)
Skoda
Stadtwerke Düsseldorf (public utility dusseldorf)
Vittel was there with many big trucks, spraying water towards the spectators (Vittel hatte viele LKW vor Ort, haben auch Zuschauer nass gespritzt)
Not only this one of two helicopters took a look at the cyclists
but me as well:
Hope you liked the pics (at least some of them) - if you did, let me know with an upvote and/or comment! :-)