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Starting point and access: Villiers-Montbarbin station.
- Tram - Line T14, between Esbly and Crécy-la-Chapelle.
Take the only exit, Avenue de la Gare.
Yellow markings
(S/E) Walk past the station on your left, turn left and cross the railway tracks 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 concrete dead-end track. Climb a very steep slope. At the fork at the foot of a metal cross, take the right-hand path.
(1) Follow Rue du Fresne to the right (ignore Rue des Bordes further to the right). Then take the first left, Chemin des Brebis: the tarmac soon gives way to a path that climbs gently. At the corner of a fence on the left-hand side, take a grassy path to the right and walk alongside a small fenced orchard on your right. Walk eastwards between fields, meadows and hedgerows. After two tight left-right bends, you’ll come out onto the D33.
(2) Cross the road and continue straight ahead onto a small road. When this turns left, leave the tarmac and continue straight on along a grassy path. Cross a small wood (damp patches), continue with a hedge on your right and then between the fields. As you approach the houses, ignore a turn-off on the left and then turn left with the path.
Markings: Yellow + Purple + Red and White
(3) At the junction, turn right onto Route de Férolles. After about 100 metres, at a fork, take the right-hand path, Rue des Chantrennes. Head downhill and ignore a dead-end on the right (Sentiers des Rougets). At the next junction, turn right onto the flat Chemin des Rougets. After about 300 m, head downhill to the left between the fields. Pass a reservoir on your right and continue downhill. Cross a road and continue straight ahead along a path between two hedges.
(4) Cross the D934 at the pedestrian crossing and make a right-left zigzag to join a gravel path (zigzag). Ignore a road on the right, cross a path and continue straight on 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 a hundred metres, take the metal footbridge over the river. Turn immediately right and follow the Grand Morin on your right again. Note the Church of Saint-Georges on the opposite bank and come out onto the D20 road.
Blue markings
Follow the road to the right and enter the Faubourg de Voulangis (ignore theGR®® heading uphill opposite).
Yellow + Blue markings
(6) At the crossroads, cross the D235 and follow the Chemin Vert westwards. Walk alongside meadows on your right, with the Grand Morin river beyond. Pass a canoe and kayak centre and continue between the fields. At the next junction (marker 52), turn left. The path gives way to tarmac. At the corner of a house, turn right and rejoin a path further on.
(7) At the next junction (fenced meadow on the right), take the path uphill to the left. The path becomes stony, then gravelly, and finally turns into a tarmac road (Rue du Val). At the junction, turn left.
Yellow markings
At the next junction, turn right onto Rue de l’Orme. Continue straight ahead up a slight incline and cross two perpendicular streets.
(8) After No. 32, turn right into Ruelle du Rondet, a narrow lane between two walls. At the corner of the left-hand wall, turn left. After about 50 metres, turn right. At the end of the lane, turn left into a street. After about 50 metres, follow Sente de la Mare Pottier (tarmac) to the right.
(9) When the road turns left, continue straight on along a grassy path (ignore the blue arrow pointing left). Head west between the fields. After a hedge on the left, turn right and go down towards the edge of the woods on your left. Turn left with the path.
(10) At the junction (meadow on the left), continue straight on, following a wall on your right (twoPR®® paths cross here; ignore the one going down to the right). Ignore a path branching off to the left and, at the end of the track, follow a small road downhill to the right. At the corner of a house, turn left (zigzag) onto a path leading downhill. Go round the Lavoir de Retz on the left, cross a stream and head uphill opposite. At the end of the path, turn right onto a small road leading downhill.
No signposting
(11) At the next junction, with Ruelle Isaac, continue straight ahead (ignore the yellow markings turning left). At the next fork, near No. 36, turn right downhill into Grande Rue. At the next junction, turn right and continue downhill. At the Stop sign, turn right, pass in front of the town hall and then past the foot of the church.
Yellow markings
(12) Turn left into Rue de Paris. When this turns left, continue diagonally to the right into Chaussée du Ru and follow the stream on your right. At the end, turn left. At the stop sign, turn right. Cross the Grand Morin via the Pont Vercors (named after the writer). Immediately ignore a turn-off on the left and you will find the Villiers-Montbarbin station (S/E) just ahead on the left.
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