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(DA) From the eastern end of the Carrefour shopping centre car park, exit the car park via an upward staircase, then a path through a lawn, then a dead-end road leading straight onto Rue de Bénodet, opposite a pink house (the street is incorrectly labelled Route de Bénodet on some maps).
(1) Cross Rue de Bénodet then turn right.
Note: just to the right of the pink house, there is a municipal water collection station, situated in a deep depression and almost invisible from the street.
Turn immediately left before a small car park, onto Rue Jean Richepin, then take the second right onto Rue Robespierre, then left onto Rue Montaigne, then right onto Rue de la Paix (at a 4x3m advertising hoarding).
Follow Rue de la Paix to the end (a rounded square forming a cul-de-sac).
In the square at the end of Rue de la Paix, look to your right and take a pedestrian path that leads down Rue de Bénodet.
(2) Turn left onto Rue de Bénodet (bakery, bank and florist on the other side of the street).
Continue for about 150m and, after a red sign high up reading “Espace Alain Guérin”, turn left onto Allée Victor Lucas, which leads uphill under the trees.
Follow Allée Victor Lucas to the end for about 500m under the trees. You will pass a car park entrance. The lane then ends in a dirt track, leading onto a sloping street just opposite Impasse Émile Zola.
Cross carefully to reach the side under the trees, then turn right to head back down Rue de l’Université. Follow the street to the Kerustum roundabout.
(3) Take the first left, Allée de Kerustum (sign for ‘Lycée Kerustum’). Shortly afterwards, ignore the school entrance on the left and continue along Allée de Kerustum to the right until you reach a large plastic greenhouse.
At the greenhouse, leave the tarmac Allée de Kerustum and continue roughly straight ahead along a dirt track that runs alongside a fence and the greenhouse on your right. Further on, ignore a flight of steps leading up to the left; then, at a three-way junction, take the right-hand branch, which leads back down.
Cross a large concrete slab over a stream, and turn immediately right onto a very narrow path.
Follow the path until you cross over a slope. Just after the slope, turn immediately left, then take a right-hand bend to go behind the houses on your left.
Continue without turning off onto the narrow dirt path under the trees, which runs along the noisy boulevard below on the right and passes behind houses with gardens on the left.
You’ll come out onto a public lawn, with a red fire hydrant, alongside a street.
Turn right onto Rue de la Martinique, until you reach a junction with a small car park: opposite, slightly to the right, take the steps leading to a pedestrian walkway. Turn right.
(4) Turn left to go round an old building with wisteria on the façade, walking alongside it (leaving it on your right).
Note: you can take a detour to reach the Bois de Keradennec by taking the path on the right and leaving the old building on your left (passing through a tunnel) (then return via the tunnel).
After the old building, turn right into the lane just after the thick wooden fence: the lane runs past allotments (community gardens), then past the Vignes du Braden.
After the Vignes du Braden, you’ll come out into a car park. In the car park, take the first left.
Then, take the first right between the houses and then turn left again onto Allée Mgr Jean-René Calloc'h.
Walk past the entrance to the Stade Jean Brélivet and continue straight ahead along the footpath under the trees.
Turn into the second lane on the left, Allée du Braden, just before a wooden barrier.
Continue straight on (Yellow Markings) along a concrete path for about 400m (you will cross a road along the way).
At a junction where, if you turned left, you would go under a small bridge, take the opposite direction and turn right, leaving the Yellow Markings. A little further on, follow the Sky Blue Markings, which then lead to Allée de l’Île de Pâques.
(5) Turn right to follow Allée de l’Île de Pâques (Yellow Markings) due north.
The lane crosses a road: continue along the lane (Yellow Markings).
About 50m after the junction with the street, turn left into a lane that leads between blocks of flats and garages.
Continue straight on for about 250m alongside blocks of flats (on the left) and large training buildings (Greta) on the right, until you reach a junction (sign indicating “Rue Île Béniguet 100m / Avenue de Limerick 36 38 40”).
Cross this slightly busier road and, on the opposite side, take two flights of steps leading straight down between the blocks of flats (under a sort of arch), then follow the path running alongside a lawn, which turns left and then right.
Continue to a children’s play area (slide), and go round it keeping it on your right, then go down the path towards a small car park for people with reduced mobility.
(6) An information sign and a wooden gate mark the entrance to the Vallon Saint-Laurent. Go through the gate and continue along the path.
Follow the path without turning off, keeping the Ruisseau Saint-Laurent on your right, pass a children’s play area, and continue until you pass a small pond on your right (retention basin).
After the small pond, turn right to go round the tip.
The aim here is to climb up through the woods to the edge to find one of the few passages leading out.
On the other side of the pond, immediately climb over a small embankment and you will find three paths on the other side: one straight ahead on the left, climbing very steeply; one in the middle – this is the one to take (yellow MTB markings); ignore the very narrow path on the right.
Another junction with three paths: turn sharply left (yellow MTB markings, almost invisible).
Turn right at the next junction, then left at the following one (yellow MTB markings).
After about 20m, opposite and slightly to the left, there is a high embankment marking the boundary, revealing a wire fence and the remains of a small wooden gate: this is the passage. Leave the path and climb the embankment (a slightly tricky passage).
You will come out onto a small path, bordering a private property behind a hedge (on the left) and a fence (on the right).
(7) Follow the path for a few metres and turn immediately right into the clearing, located next to the hospital. You will then reach the hospital car park.
In the car park, turn left to cross it completely and, about 150 metres further on, reach the entrance on Rue Émile Zola.
Exit the hospital via this entrance on Rue Émile Zola, cross the road and head straight across to Rue Montesquieu (note the view towards the south of the town).
Take the first right onto Rue Montaigne and ignore the three streets on the left.
(8) Opposite Impasse Molière, turn left onto a very narrow footpath that leads into a small wood.
Continue more or less straight ahead along the paths beneath the woods, and you will emerge onto Rue Edgard Quinet (all the paths lead there).
Turn left onto Rue Edgard Quinet and continue until the second street on the left, Rue Alfred de Vigny.
Carry on, then take the second left onto Route de Bénodet.
After about 100m, take the cul-de-sac on the right, then the path leading to the Carrefour car park (S/E).
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