Better By Bike
Published in Virtuoso Life | January 2012 | By Larry Olmsted
We had enjoyed previous group cycling trips with Butterfield & Robinson, renowned for its skilled guides, so we were immediately intrigued by the company’s radical change of gears: the introduction of self-guided trips. Which is how we found ourselves spending our 20th wedding anniversary with a s six-day trip through Burgundy, starting in the regional captial (and mustard captial!), Dijon, then pedaling through the world’s most famous vineyards in the Côte de Nuits to charming medieval Beaune, heart of the region’s wine trade.
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