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Adeps Fedasil Walk

(S/E) On leaving the car park, take the street straight ahead: Avenue Général Naessens de Loncin until you reach the T-junction. Turn left: Avenue de la Rochefoucauld until you reach the roundabout. At the next roundabout, turn right onto Rue de l’Institut. Continue to the next roundabout. Turn left ontoRue de la Hulpe; follow this street to the roundabout with the Café du Lac;cross Rue de Genval. Turn left onto Zilverbeekdreef. You will arrive at Lake Genval.

(1) Go round the lakeon the right-hand side, i.e. the Overijse shore, following Meerlaan. Continue to the end of the lake and Meerlaan, which becomes Avenue du Lac in Genval. Continue along Avenue du Lac, passing Château du Lac, then take the path on the left that runs alongside the lake and is closed to traffic: Promenade Paul Harris. At the end of this path, take the second right, which climbs steeply: Avenue du Théâtre.

At the end of Avenue du Théâtre, turn right onto Avenue des Cormiers until you reach the roundabout. Go straight through the roundabout. At the next roundabout, go straight on and follow the route past Place des Martyrs and the railway tracks (on your right).

(2) At the Schtroumpf roundabout, turn right onto Rue de Rosières, go straight across the junction with Avenue Albert 1er and turn left onto Rue de la Station, which continues as Avenue des Combattants. Follow this for about 1 km (on the left-hand pavement). Pass the Drève du Val Saint-Pierre on your left. Pass the Marcel Ladrière path (between houses numbered 106 and 104), which is still on your left.

(3) Take the Françoise Humblet-Vieujean path on the left (just before number 52), which leads to the Le Carpu Nature Reserve. At the bottom of this path, cross the meadow and head towards the small wooden bridge ahead of you. At the end of the bridge/wooden walkway, turn right and follow La Lasne toRue de la Manteline.

(4) Cross the street to take the Chemin des Aïeux directly in front of you. Before the climb, turn right onto the Sentier de la Fontaine (marked with blue arrow no. 1). This path leads to Place Cardinal Mercier de Bourgeois via a flight of 29 steps. Cross the square to the right. Just before the end of the square, turn right onto Rue du Lambermont. Opposite Rue Dyna Beumer (which is on your right), turn left onto the path of the same name: Dyna Beumer.

(5) Place Quai du Tram. Cross the square to Rue Haute. Cross Rue Haute. Straight ahead, slightly to your left, follow the Val Héron path. This path leads to the roundabout with the cinema, the Intermarché and the Q8 petrol station. Cross at the pedestrian crossing on your left. Turn right and cross the pedestrian crossing straight ahead, opposite the brasserie on the corner of Avenue F. Roosevelt and Avenue de Mérode.

(6) Take Avenue de Mérode, passing the cinema, until you reach the first street on the left leading to the town hall, still on Avenue de Mérode. Take this street and enter Rixensart’s municipal park. After the car park behind the town hall, take the path leading into the woods. The police station is on your left. Cross the woods/park, keeping to the left. First follow the ‘library’ sign, walk round the back of this building (which is on your left), and then follow the ‘Rixensart station’ sign.

(7) When you reach the railway line, turn briefly left and then go under the bridge on the right. After the bridge, at the crossroads, do not take Avenue Monseigneur, but the street on your right, Rue du Patch. After about a hundred metres, on your left, take the Sentier Marguerite, which leads to Rue de l’Institut.

(8) Take Rue de l’Institut slightly to the left. Cross Rue de l’Institut. Straight ahead, Sentier Marguerite continues and leads to Rue A. de Hautefenne. On this street, turn left onto Sentier du Cimetière. Follow the path to Rue du Plagniau. Turn left to reach the Fedasil centre (S/E).