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Starting point: Porsmilin Beach car park (Moulin Beach).
GR 34 white and red markings
(S/E) With your back to the car park, take the coastal path heading west (signposted route no. 9), walk along the beach, then climb a few steps and you will come to a path going up to the right. Leave this path, as it will be the one you take on the way back.
Continue straight ahead (no cycling sign). Keep theGR® on your left, climb a few steps where you will have a view on your left of the Tas de Pois on the Crozon peninsula and Fort de Bertheaume opposite.
(1) You will reach the Batterie de Toul Logot (Trou de la Souris), the ruins of a military site dating back to Vauban. At the gravel road, turn left (signposted coastal path) and follow this small road down to an esplanade overlooking the Grève de Porski (Grève du Chien). Follow the path down to the beach and continue, leaving two roads on your right.
(2) Pass a yellow-marked trail on your right (this will be the return route) and continue to follow theGR® to reach Sainte-Anne Beach and spot the statue on your left that watches over this beach.
(3) Leave the path that descends to the beach on your left. At low tide, you can walk along the beach to reach Trez Hir. Continue along the coastal path to the Kerastréat housing estate. At the exit, descend towards the beach; be careful, as the pavement and road are narrow, traffic is heavy and there is a dangerous bend.
(4) Reach a large car park and continue along the path that runs along the entire beach. Note the beautiful villas on the right, evidence of the early days of this seaside resort, which quickly attracted the people of Brest. Continue past the swimming pool on your right, then the water sports centre and Tourist Office on your left, and continue to the end of the beach.
(5) Take Boulevard de la Corniche, which climbs steadily. Unfortunately, at this point, large properties block the view of the bay. Walk along a small beach (Plage des Curés) with its steep steps leading down to it. At the top of this boulevard, take the coastal path that goes around a campsite and overlooks Berthaume Beach, which can be accessed via a small staircase.
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(6) Leave theGR®34and turn right into Rue de Perzel. Pass the entrance to the campsite and follow the path along the side of the road. Pass a small fountain half-hidden in the embankment and you will reach Rue des Ajoncs on your right.
(7) Be careful, as this street is actually a pedestrian path (barrier) that climbs up to Rue de Pen ar Mean, which you follow on the left until Rue Saint-Yves.
Follow this street for a few metres to the left and cross it.
(8) Take Allée des Mésanges (between numbers 92bis and 2). At the end of this long pedestrian lane, turn right onto Rue de Lesmily and follow it until you reach an intersection with several streets.
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Turn left onto Rue de Kervenoc, then right onto Chemin de l'Albatros, which continues onto Rue des Sternes. We are now in the old agricultural area of the Trez Hir hills, which has been ravaged by property development.
(9) At the top of the street, turn left onto a long, wooded sunken lane that climbs towards Chemin de Kervasdoué, which you follow to the right until you reach the road that descends to Trez Hir. Cross it and continue straight ahead towards Kerlédern (dead end sign) and follow this small road. Shortly before the manor house of the same name, follow the new route between the fields, which avoids passing near the manor house (private property). Turn left and continue along the path through a wooded area to reach the coastal path taken on the way there.
(2) Follow it on the left and go up along the Grève de Porski.
(10) Leaving theGR® trail, turn left, passing close to the memorial to the FFI soldiers of the canton. Follow the road as it climbs steadily and, when you reach a large stone house on the left, turn right towards Cosquer Village, with its beautifully restored old farmhouses. Pass a private road on your right (dead end sign) and after the houses, turn right onto Chemin de Porsmilin. Follow this sunken lane downhill. Facing the sea, turn left to return to the path you took on the way there, until you reach the Porsmilin beach car park (S/E).
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