La Caravane Publicitaire has been a fixture of the Tour de France since 1930. Preceding the race on the road by about 60-90 minutes, it is a bizarre convoy of sometimes extraordinary vehicles, decked out in the colours of the race's sponsors and staffed by a legion of young men and women employed to dispense shedloads of cheap plastic tat to the waiting fans, by the simple expedient of chucking it at them. This was stage 3. I hope he still had that energy on stage 21.