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Starting point and access: Villiers-Montbarbin station.
- Transilien - Line P, on the section between Esbly and Crécy-la-Chapelle.
Take the only exit, Avenue de la Gare.
Yellow markings
(S/E) Walk along the station on your left, turn left and cross the railway line at the level crossing. At the traffic lights, use the pedestrian crossing to cross the D934 and follow it to the right. After No. 38, turn left onto a cement path that is a dead end. Climb a steep slope. At the fork at the foot of a metal cross, take the right-hand path.
(1) Keep right on Rue du Fresne (ignore Rue des Bordes further to the right). Then turn into the first road on the left, Chemin des Brebis: the tarmac quickly gives way to a gently ascending path. At the corner of a fence on the left, turn right onto a grassy path and follow a small fenced orchard on your right. Walk east between fields, meadows and hedges. After two sharp left/right turns, you will come out onto the D33.
(2) Cross the road and continue straight ahead on a small road. When it turns left, leave the tarmac and continue straight ahead on a grassy path. Cross a small wood (wet passages), continue with a hedge on your right and then between the fields. When you reach the houses, ignore a path on the left and turn left with the path.
Yellow + purple + red and white markings
(3) At the crossroads, turn right onto Route de Férolles. After about 100 metres, at a fork, take the Rue des Chantrennes on the right. Go downhill and ignore a dead end on the right (Sentiers des Rougets). At the next intersection, turn right and continue straight ahead on Chemin des Rougets. After about 300 metres, turn left downhill between the fields. Pass a reservoir on your right and continue downhill. Cross a road and continue straight ahead on a path between two hedges.
(4) Cross the D934 at the pedestrian crossing and make a right-left zigzag to enter a gravel path (chicane). Ignore a street on the right, cross a path and continue straight ahead to the edge of a small canal. Turn left and follow the small canal on your right. Note the beautiful houses and old private wash houses on the opposite bank. Cross a road and continue straight ahead, keeping a tennis court on your left.
(5) Turn left and follow the Grand Morin on your right. After about 100 metres, take the metal footbridge over the river. Turn right immediately and follow the Grand Morin on your right again. Note the Saint-Georges Church on the opposite bank and you will come out onto the D20 road.
Blue markings
Follow the road to the right and enter the Faubourg de Voulangis (let theGR® trail climb up opposite).
Yellow + blue markings
(6) At the crossroads, cross the D235 and follow the Chemin Vert westwards. Walk along the meadows on your right, with the Grand Morin beyond. Pass a canoe and kayak centre and continue between the fields. At the next crossroads (elevation 52), turn left. The path gives way to tarmac. At the corner of a house, turn right and continue along the path.
(7) At the next intersection (fenced meadow on the right), turn left onto an uphill path. The path becomes stony, then gravelly, and finally gives way to tarmac (Rue du Val). At the crossroads, turn left.
Yellow signposting
At the next intersection, turn right onto Rue de l'Orme. Continue straight ahead on a slight incline and cross two perpendicular streets.
(8) After No. 32, turn right onto Ruelle du Rondet, a path between two walls. At the corner of the left wall, turn left. After about 50 metres, turn right. At the end of the path, turn left onto a street. After about 50 metres, follow the Sente de la Mare Pottier (tarmac) to the right.
(9) When the road turns left, continue straight ahead on a grassy path (ignore the blue arrow pointing left). Head west between the fields. After a hedge on the left, turn right and descend along the edge of the woods on your left. Turn left with the path.
(10) At the intersection (meadow on the left), continue straight ahead along a wall on your right (twoPR® signs cross here; ignore the one that goes down to the right). Ignore a turn-off on the left and, at the end of the road, follow a small road downhill to the right. At the corner of a house, turn left (chicane) onto a path downhill. Go around the Lavoir de Retz on the left, cross a stream and go up opposite. At the end of the path, turn right onto a small road going downhill.
No signposts
(11) At the next intersection with Ruelle Isaac, continue straight ahead (ignore the yellow signpost on the left). At the next fork, at No. 36, turn right downhill onto Grande Rue. At the next intersection, turn right and continue downhill. At the stop sign, turn right, pass the town hall and then the church.
Yellow signpost
(12) Turn left onto Rue de Paris. When this road turns left, continue diagonally to the right onto Chaussée du Ru and follow this road with the church on your right. At the end, turn left. At the stop sign, turn right. Cross the Grand Morin on the Pont Vercors (named after the writer). Ignore a turn on the left and immediately find the Villiers-Montbarbin station on your left (S/E).
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