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Head to Quétigny and park in the cemetery car park on Boulevard de la Croix Saint-Martin. Just before entering Quétigny (via the D108) from Couternon, take thefirst road on the left, passing the recycling centre and the riding school. At the next roundabout, take thesecond exit on the right onto Boulevard de la Croix Saint-Martin. The cemetery is about 100 m further on, on the right.
(S/E) From the car park (Allée Rosa Parks), facing the cemetery, turn right then keep left to go round the houses and join the Allée des Jardins. Follow this road to the left, passing the gendarmerie. At the roundabout, carefully cross the Allée du Parc and turn left. Immediately afterwards, you’ll reach the junction with Chemin de la Fontaine de Couternon.
(1) Turn right and follow this road – a residential area with signposts to the left – to its end, ignoring any side paths, whilst passing under a high-voltage power line (LEHT) at a place called La Combe. You will emerge onto Avenue Salvador Allende.
(2) Cross this road carefully and turn right onto the cycle and footpath. Follow the avenue and then the Route de Quétigny, continuing straight ahead on the cycle path. Cross a bridge over the ring road. Follow the Allée du Temps Libre on your right, passing sports facilities. Continue down the cycle path to avoid a large roundabout on your right.
(3) The safe route runs parallel to the D 125d. Leave this departmental road, which veers to the left, as well as the cycle path, and continue straight ahead to join the D 70 (Route de Saint-Apollinaire).
(4) Cross this road carefully and head straight ahead. Take the Chemin des Varennes, which is tarmac-surfaced as it passes through the Bois Guillaume Business Park. Follow it continuously outside the built-up area, ignoring any side paths. After passing under a high-voltage power line, you’ll reach the end of the white, stony track from Saint-Apollinaire to Ruffey.
(5) Turn right and follow this track until you reach a crossroads. It branches off to the left, lined with trees. Ignore this and continue straight ahead along a field track. Follow this track, which passes under a high-voltage power line, until you reach the next crossroads of tracks.
(6) Then turn right onto a stony track called Allée du Bois de Varois, which leads to the farm of the same name and, at its end, joins the old D 70, now disused. Go round the fluid storage depot on the left and join the D 70 (Route de Gray) a little further on. Walk carefully along this road on the left-hand side (facing the danger) and cross it shortly afterwards. At the bend, you’ll come to a stony track that runs perpendicular towards the fields.
(7) Take this path and continue along this unpaved track. Turn left after crossing a ditch. At the end of the path, where it meets the Ruisseau du Bas Mont, turn right onto the same track until you reach the D107d, Route de Couternon.
(8) Turn left and carefully walk up the left-hand side of this road (facing the oncoming traffic) to cross the four-lane bridge over the Arc. You’ll soon reach another junction.
(9) Take thesecond track on the left (the gravel one), then follow the four-lane road (keeping to the left) at the hamlet of Larrey. Turn onto thefirst white gravel track branching off to the right. At the end of this, turn left, then immediately afterwards turn right to reach the outskirts of Couternon via the Impasse de l’Aige de Varois. When you reach the end of the Rue de Chaignot, turn right until you also reach the end of the Rue de Dijon. Follow it to the left and, at the end, you’ll come to the junction with the D 108, Route de Quétigny.
(10) Turn right and, after about a hundred metres, turn left onto the Route de Bressey via Rue du Moulin. Cross the Pont de la Norges. When you reach the Mille Club de Couternon on your left, cross the road carefully and turn right towards the stud farm via Chemin de la Prairie.
At the equestrian centre, turn left, then right at the end of the road onto the Vieille Tille. Continue straight ahead. Ignore a path branching off to the left. You’ll reach a path that runs between fields and isn’t shown on the IGN map.
(12) Take this path to the right to quickly reach the Norges. Follow it along, veering slightly to the left. You’ll see the Moulin de Limprey on your right, on the other side of the stream. Continue in this direction until you reach a bridge.
(13) Cross the Norges and then, without fail, the Ruisseau de la Goulotte. Follow it to your left and continue straight ahead along a grassy path (not shown on the IGN map) until you come to a water-filled ditch, the Mirande.
Follow it upstream, keeping to the left, until you reach a bridge on the left which allows you to cross it. Turn left towards the residential area of Chevigny.
(14) Just before entering the built-up area, turn right, under the trees, onto a path that winds along the edge of the houses and the woodland. Follow it straight ahead until it emerges at a bend in Rue Guigone de Salins.
(15) Turn right onto another well-marked path. Cross a bridge, follow a stream on your right, then turn left after a small hill and walk alongside the Ruisseau du Cromois, with sports facilities on your left.
(16) At the edge of the woods, turn right onto Allée Galilée. Walk slightly uphill towards some houses along this lane, then take Rue Louise Michel in the town of Quétigny. Follow the footpath to the left until you reach the point where the road splits. Cross it carefully and head straight to the right along a marked footpath which crosses a playground and winds along the boundary between houses and fields.
Cross Allée Teilhard de Chardin. Continue along this path with the fields on your right until you come to a white-gravel cross-path, next to a water retention basin dug to cope with flooding.
(17) Turn left and follow this wide white path (houses on the left, fields on the right) up to the roundabout. Carefully go round it on the left to join Boulevard de la Croix Saint-Martin, which will take you to the Quétigny cemetery car park, your starting point (S/E).
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