What’s more exciting than watching the Tour de France shoot past in all its three-dimensional technicolour? Maybe, just maybe, driving just ahead of it in a car decked out as a cauliflower.
There’s a second Tour de France that the cameras don’t show: one awash with branded bucket hats and inflatable animals, giant four-by-four vegetables climbing mountains and vehicles that have, through the years, rolled past spectators disguised as a leek, cherry, melon and strawberry. The Tour de France caravan.
