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Departure from the Bricqueville-sur-Mer beach car park, at a crossroads (gantry at the entrance). Coming from Bricqueville-sur-Mer, the car park is on the right, at the end of the submersible road that crosses the Vanlée. Coming from Saint-Martin-de-Bréhal, it is located just before turning right onto the submersible road.
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(S/E) From the crossroads at the corner of the car park, follow the small road northbound with a speed limit of 40km/h (you can walk on the wide grassy verges).
(1) At a small car park, turn left and take a path that starts at the foot of a post with a sign reminding you to keep dogs on a leash. Find a wide sandy path bordered in places by short wooden posts. Follow this path north-northeast, between a dune on your left and the grasslands of Havre de la Vanlée on your right. At the end of the path, continue along the sand to the tip of the headland.
(2) Turn left at the hairpin bend and head back south-west then south-south-west, either along the beach or on top of the dune that runs alongside it (depending on the tide or your preference). In both cases, the path is obviously sandy, and there are numerous tracks allowing you to go back and forth between the beach and the dune.
(3) At the Bricqueville-sur-Mer slipway (building marked "Plage de Bricqueville-sur-Mer"), continue straight ahead (south) along the beach (the path through the dunes is not really possible due to the presence of a campsite). Cross a small jetty made of rock blocks, walk a few dozen metres further along the beach and go up the slipway of the Bréhal sailing school (orientation table at the top left).
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(4) Follow theGR®223straight ahead and walk along the Bréhal sailing school facilities on your left. Continue straight ahead on the jetty, ignoring all the paths leading to the seaside houses on your left, until you reach the main slipway at Saint-Martin-de-Bréhal (lifeguard station on the corner, seaside house with a small turret behind the station).
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(5) Then turn left, leaving the lifeguard station on your right. Continue straight on Avenue de Saint-Martin (D592) until you reach the Saint-Martin-de-Bréhal exit sign (you will cross several perpendicular streets along the way). After this sign, continue on the D592 for about 300 metres until you pass a sign for "Intersection with a non-priority road" on the left-hand side of the road.
(6) Then leave the road, take a path on the left and go through a field gate (if it is closed, remember to close it behind you). Stay on a grassy path marked by a few wooden posts, close to hedges or fences on your left and bordering sheep pastures on your right. As you approach a bridge over the Vanlée, turn left and cross a gate using a stile. You will come to the edge of the D345 at the "Le Pont Builey" hiking post.
(7) Follow the road to the left (west) for a few metres. After crossing Rue des Goélettes on the left and just before a "Camping sauvage interdit" (no wild camping) sign on the right, turn right onto a discreet path that quickly becomes a grassy track with a riding school on the left a short distance away. At a T-junction, turn left and walk between two horse pastures.
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(8) At the next junction, turn right onto a wide sandy path. Ignore a vague path on the left and, at the next junction, continue straight ahead. Go through a meadow gate (if it is closed, remember to close it behind you) and turn immediately left. After about 50 metres, at the corner of a fence on the right-hand side, turn right and, in the middle of a meadow, follow a path marked with signposts.
(9) When you reach a road, follow it to the right on the wide, grassy right-hand verge. At a left-hand bend in the road, leave it by turning right and follow a path through the grass (marker posts). As you approach the submersible road, turn left (let theGR® turn right). Then follow the submersible road to the left until you reach the crossroads where the starting car park is located (S/E).
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