Where Cycling Meets Good Red Wine - By Titus Arnu
/House wine, delicious food, and plenty of activities to keep you entertained – The Hungry Cyclist Lodge in Burgundy offers this not only to tired cyclists.
Tom Kevill-Davies knows what it means to be hungry and tired. The Brit has cycled tens of thousands of kilometers in his life. The longest journey he completed took him from New York to Rio de Janeiro. Kevill-Davies, who has also worked as a copywriter, travel journalist, and cycling guide, wrote a book about this journey: The Hungry Cyclist .
And that's also the name of the inn he opened in Auxey-Duresses, a village near Meursault in Burgundy. In 2012, Kevill-Davies bought a dilapidated mill there and converted it into a bed and breakfast. He also married the daughter of a winemaker, and so the inn is dedicated to cycling, good wine, and good food. The five guest rooms feature antiques, art and cycling books, and a stream flows through the garden. Ducks, chickens, and rabbits roam around the pool, and a 3,000-liter wine barrel has been converted into a whirlpool.
During the day, you can rent racing bikes or e-bikes and take excursions into the region. Some of the world's most expensive wines are grown in the area. However, the Pinot Noir that Tom Kevill-Davies uncorks in the evening comes from his brother-in-law's wine cellar. Kevill-Davies does the cooking himself, using vegetables from his garden. For dessert, there are stories about his cycling adventures in the Amazon, the Sahara, or Laos. Nobody goes to bed hungry here. And nobody bored, either.
