Take your passport – and a nose-clip – for Monday’s Stage 3 of the Tour de France because it hits three countries and a region with super-stinky cheese.
Here is your gastronomic, sporting and cultural guide to the 212.5 kilometers (132 miles) between Verviers in Belgium and the finish in Longwy, France:
REGION: After Saturday’s opening stage in Germany and Stage 2 that finished in Belgium, the Tour comes home to France, via the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The bumpy north-south route includes five short, sharp hills that should make for interesting racing, likely breaking up the peloton into multiple groups.