The top brokers from the company earn the right to travel to this meeting, get to know their fellow brokers, meet some of the key fund personnel and enjoy themselves quite a bit.  The prime activity is biking but lots of shopping, cultural visiting, hiking and just plain relaxing take place.

Full buffet breakfast on the terrace and in the vaulted wine cellar turned breakfast room.

8:30-11:00 AM.  Lectures.

Following lectures the bikers ride 25 km out through the vineyards and into the flat farmland of the plains surrounding Beaune.  After a few days of rolling hills, the flats are a welcome sight.

Everyone meets at the rendezvous lunch spot, a simple family restaurant on the banks of the Saône River.  A short lunch turns into a very long lunch!

Easy ride back to Beaune along tiny roads and through deserted villages.  Some go shopping, some join the guides for a winetasting, others decide to visit the Fallot mustard plant to see how this spice is made.

Dinner tonight in the private dining room of the Hospices de Beaune, once the King’s Bedroom.  The Joyeux Bourguignons entertain and everyone joins in the singing.

Hôtel Le Cep, Beaune.

Hôtel Le Cep is the finest hotel in Beaune.  Four lovely Renaissance townhouses joined around a central flowered courtyard and located right in the center of the medieval town.