Naujan and Postiac circular via Saint-Aubin-de-Branne

Date of your route : Nov 10, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Good evening
Ride taken on 12 Jan 2020 and repeated today.
I won’t go back over the description I wrote four years ago. I’ll just add that this is an area with plenty of horses and confirm that the walk is well worth doing, offering varied and beautiful scenery.

However, I’m surprised (myself) because in 2020 I don’t think I used the GPS, just the 1:25,000 map and the route description. And I have to say that today I was glad to have the GPS as some sections are ‘vague’ and/or marked in a questionable way.

Quickly:
At Jacques, you really must take the small path to the left that you can just make out at the end of the hamlet. After that, it’s best to head for the D128 road, as we didn’t see any sign of a path leading to it…

Once you’ve taken the path before the Scassefort mill, the GPS indicates a crossing quite a distance away to cross the Prieur stream. Either the vegetation has reclaimed its territory, as the path on the left bank of the stream is overgrown with brambles, or there’s a problem, as the one and only crossing is reached very quickly. At this point, you simply need to take the grassy path that climbs between an abandoned vineyard on the left and a meadow (with horses) on the right. 100 metres further up, you’ll find a wide, superb path which you should take to the left. You’ll come across the trail again much later as you climb towards Bardos.
At Labrou, there is actually not a Y-junction but a trident, and the path to take (hard to see) is the one on the far left (you must pass in front of the wrought-iron gate and look carefully downwards; the path descends and is then visible).
After Prussi, the path is easy to follow, except that at one point you must not continue straight on (the path remains level) but head down to the far left (past a post planted there by the Gironde General Council) and descend towards the Prieur stream (which you cross again). It makes sense to go down as the stream is below.
In Escambert, the greenhouses are indeed there, but you must take the path that initially looks private (and which then continues alongside a vineyard), as it runs past the house located there.

Thanks again to everyone who creates these walks.
Kind regards

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Date of your route : Sep 17, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Great hike, thanks @Bruno33500!
We did it over two days, camping along the way, so the pace was leisurely, but the hike is certainly beautiful and perfectly balanced, taking in vineyards, meadows, woodland, flat sections and climbs to give your cardio a bit of a workout
We even flushed a hare, a pheasant and a roe deer right in front of us – what more could you ask for?

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Date of your route : Oct 15, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

The village of St Aubin is lovely, but there are some gaps in the route, forcing you to cut through the vineyards. At Prussi, you need to head towards the village of Peyssan and take a path on the left just before a new house, which leads back to the river and the main route

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Date of your route : May 18, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Hello,
First of all, a clarification: we only used the route description and map provided by Visorando (no GPS or TOP 25).
It must be said that the walk is superb, with limited sections on roads and, moreover, the option to walk alongside the vineyards. But there is little traffic.
The first difficulty lies in the direction of the walk: the signs for the hamlets are almost all pointing the other way. You therefore have to walk past the hamlet to find out its name (and possibly turn back).
The second difficulty: changes of direction. Simply saying ‘turn left at the Y-junction’ isn’t enough, as there are sometimes several Y-junctions. It’s better to look for a house (which doesn’t move).
We didn’t see any greenhouses in Escambert.
Thank you.

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Date of your route : Jan 12, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

A lovely, pleasant walk, offering varied scenery and passing through a number of hamlets. The diverse agricultural landscape helps to break up the monotony that can sometimes prevail in this part of the Gironde (vineyards as far as the eye can see).
The route is also varied, running through rolling countryside.

Thank you for this route.

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