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Park in the car park at Place de la Mairie.
(S/E) Take Rue de la Meauffe uphill towards the west. At the first junction, turn right into Rue du Tour d’Orlac. You will reach the vineyards, at the corner of a residential house.
(1) Turn right into Rue du Claud. Walk past the cemetery on your right and continue to the Route de Pons, the D142. Cross this road carefully. Take the short street opposite. At the end, first turn left then right to take the track running alongside a building, the Mont Braguet.
Follow this track until you reach a Y-junction. Turn right and walk alongside a small copse. Continue straight on until you reach a small road, the Voie Romaine. Turn right and follow this Voie Romaine carefully for about thirty metres. You will find a road on your left.
(2) Turn left onto this road, which becomes Rue des Artisans as you approach the hamlet of Les Grégoires. Continue to the crossroads in the centre of the hamlet. Turn left onto a street that turns into a path once you have passed the last houses.
Continue to a small road between two vineyard plots. Turn right and follow the road carefully to the nearby water tower.
(3). In front of the water tower, turn left onto a path that crosses the Bois du Sablon. You will come to a small road on the other side of the woods. Turn left and follow this road carefully for two to three hundred metres until you reach a junction.
(4) Turn right onto a path and follow it to Route de Picauriant. Cross the road. Walk along the track opposite. Further on, the path runs along the edge of a small wood, then follows a small plot of vines before reaching a T-junction.
(5) Turn left and continue to a small road. Cross it carefully and take the farm track opposite leading to the hamlet of La Maison Neuve. Continue straight on until you reach the D142 road, just after passing the buildings of the hamlet on your left. Turn right and follow the D142 road very carefully until you reach a junction with a path on the left.
(6) Cross the D142 and take the path that runs between two vineyard plots and heads towards the Bois des Guillins. At the edge of the woods, take the path almost directly opposite that enters the woods and crosses them towards theGR® 360 -GRP® de Saintonge, which it reaches at a T-junction.
(7) Turn left onto theGR® 360. Follow it to a small road. Turn right and follow this small road carefully to the hamlet of Les Augers. Cross the hamlet and head for the junction with a path on the left and a bend to the right.
(8) Turn onto the farm track heading south-east. Continue straight on until you reach the first T-junction, on the left just before a vineyard plot.
Turn left and follow the path as it climbs gently alongside the vineyard on your right. There is a lovely view to the left of the Logis des Augers. Continue to the crossroads at the corner of the vineyard.
(9) Turn right and follow the vineyard plot which remains on your right. You will reach a track coming from Saint-Blaise and entering the Bois Chauvin. Turn left onto the farm track and enter the Bois Chauvin until you reach a four-way junction, almost at the top of the woods.
(10) Turn right onto the forest track, now gently sloping, which heads south-east. Continue straight on until you reach a track at a right-angle bend.
(11) Continue straight ahead along the track that runs between two vineyard plots and heads towards Marignac. Return to the starting point of the circular route.
(1) Take Rue du Tour d'Orlac straight ahead, going downhill. When you reach the junction with Rue de la Meauffe, turn left and follow it carefully to return to the Town Hall car park (S/E).
. However, as mentioned, there are no signposts for three-quarters of the route, and I’d have to say the description is a bit vague in places... But if you know how to read a map, you’ll manage just fine.
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