Tour de France 2007: The publicity caravan Part XI

Part XI

37. The Faillitaire caravan. The devil caravan.
Notice that these two vehicles had a different seat arrangement. One
girl sitting on the right and the other left. That means that the front
girl was throwing the "cadeaux" at the people standing on the left of
the road.

The arrangement mentioned above applies to these two cars, too.


Faillitaire goods: (pictures will be added, caps and shopping cart tokens)


38. The Euskaltel Euskadi caravan.


They gave out Basque region travel promotion leaflets with balloons. I often
saw them give, seemingly, their compatriots those leaflets. But did they
need the leaflets?

Euskaltel Euskadi goods: (ditto, sightseeing promotion leaflets and balloons)


39. La Vache qui rit caravan. The smiling cow caravan.
Most of these small parade vehicles were "Smart" underneath.











La Vache qui rit goods: (ditto, fridge magnets and the cheese)


40. The Eco-Emballages caravan.








I find this picture very beautiful.

Eco-Emballages goods: (None, since their message was NOT to litter the
street. How disappointing but appropriate!)

Tour de France 2007: The publicity caravan Part X

Part X

34. The Gendarmarie Nationale caravan. They are the officers who were taking
care of the traffic detours and everything.

Notice that the cars are arriving in their license number order, 778, 779, 780
and 781. Remember this.









The message they were promoting, "Passe ton Permis Pieton avec Gendy".
Please refer to (http://www.permispieton.com/).

Police Nationale goods: (pictures will be added)


35. The Caisse d'Epargne caravan. ?These two cars arrived in the reverse
order of their license number, 3873 and then 3872.





Caisse d'Epargne goods: (ditto, the squirrels)


36. Aujourd'hui caravan.


Aujourd'hui goods: (ditto, their paper)

Tour de France 2007: The publicity caravan Part IX

Part IX

According to "L'Eaufficiel de la Caravane", There are 200 (more or less)
vehicles in the publicity caravan. Here is the list.

(L'Eaufficiel de la Caravane by Aquarel)

1. ASO
2. LCL
3. SeaFrance
4. Journal de Mickey
5. Gel Douche Fa
6. Skoda
7. Les Cadets Juniors
8. Dr. Oetker - Ristorante
9. T-Mobile
10. Les Simpsons (Here, it is spelled with 's' in the end.)
    
11. Supermarche Champion
12. Ancel
13. La Nouvelle vie Ouvrière
14. Kleber
15. Panach'
16. CFTC
17. Haribo
18. Antargaz
19. Cofidis
20. Roadsign
21. Etap Hotel
22. Cochonou
23. Prefectures
24. PMU
25. Tele 7 Jours
26. Police Nationale
27. Xtra Minidou
28. Eurotyre
29. Force Ouvrière
30. Nestle Aquarel
31. Vision Plus
32. Bouygues Telecom
33. Cafe Grand Mere
34. Gendarmarie Nationale
35. Caisse d'Epargne
36. Aujourd'Hui en France
37. Le Faillitaire
38. Euskatel Euskadi
39. La Vache qui rit
40. Eco-Emballages
41. Sapeurs-Pompiers
42. Motorhome Rent
43. Française des Jeux
44. RMC
45. Festina
    

31. The Vision Plus caravan.

Quite off the topic but the man in the foreground in profile is one of the
three men of my tent-neighbors. They said that they came from the same
town as Inigo Cuesta. They were happy that I painted his name.

Vision Plus goods: (pictures will be added, cloth to wipe your glasses with)


32. The Bouygues Telecom caravan. They threw T-shirts sparingly and I got
one.

Bouygues Telecom goods: (ditto, CDs and T-shirt)


33. The Grand Mere caravan.

Teapot-mobile.

Grand mere goods: (ditto, ground coffee beans, of course)

Tour de France 2007: The publicity caravan Part VIII

Part VIII

30. The Nestle Aquarel caravan. It featured a crazy doctor (or mad scientist?),
a nurse, a priest of some sort and other costumed characters.

They were plugging their product and I really really appreciated them.
Bottles of water I got from them.
Isn't this Aquarel buggy cool? I think it is not street legal because it misses
lights or other safety features.

0 (zero) % calorie. But wait! I have heard 0 (zero) calorie but not 0%.
What does 100% calorie mean, then?

I could see this nurse getting darker and darker everyday. She was
tanning gradually.

100% family? Does that mean 100% family-oriented? Does that mean that
all the family member (a baby to adults) can drink?

100% natural, maybe so.

People are reaching out for something. That something is a bottle of water.

Prix Familial? What does that mean? Family price? Does that mean
that the price of the bottled water is affordable?

This clown girl did not say a word. Why?

100% lightness or 100% mildness? I think it means that gentle on your
stomach, anyway.

The fire fighter sprays people and people love it when it is really hot.

100% freshness or coolness? Anyway, maybe freshness.

Aquarel goods: (pictures will be added; bottled water, of course)

Tour de France 2007: The publicity caravan Part VII

Part VII

24. The PMU caravan.




The dancing girls. I was disappointed to see only one Skoda dancing team in
the entire caravan in 2006. This year, 2007, the situation improved greatly.
Even the PMU had a dedicated dancing girls.

The green hands.

For some reason, this picture above is the best shot I took during TdF 2007.

The dancing girl taken at Stage 4 start. This slender girl was different.
Other girls danced while this girl's movement was very, very sharp.
It seemed to me that she was a professionally trained dancer.

PMU goods: (pictures will be added; I have two kinds of them. One that
big green hand and the other is, I think, rare.)


25. The Tele 7 Jours caravan. What is it? Is it a television program magazine?


TJ goods: (ditto)

26. The Police Nationale caravan should be here. It is mixed up with
Prefectures caravan. See 23. The Prefectures caravan.


27. The Xtra Minidou caravan. The detergent caravan.




Xtra goods: (ditto)


28. The Eurotyre caravan.


Eurotyre goods: (ditto)


29. Force Ouvrière caravan. Now I know what FO stands for. FOHebdo. What is
Hebdo, then?

FO goods: (????)