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(S/E) Starting from the car park in front of Lumes Town Hall, below the church, head towards the Eclipse via Rue Derrière le Château. All that remains of this castle are farm buildings and a leisure centre. One wing is currently being restored.
At L'Éclipse, on the corner of the hotel wall, a small plaque commemorates the last floods of the Meuse.
Head straight towards the river.
(1) Take the footbridge parallel to the motorway to cross it, turning right at the circular bend. On the other side, go under the motorway and simply follow the road.
After the bend, facing a vast floodplain(a former early aviation airfield), the safety barrier opens to allow passage.
(2) Take it on the right. After the copses, you will see a flat area where travellers used to pass through. Cross it, continuing to the right on a grassy path that leads into the gravel pits through varied, wild vegetation, where trees and shrubs have grown naturally. From the top of a hill, you can see the Romery dam in the distance on the Meuse.
Follow the path that joins a stony dirt track, which you take to the right, then immediately to the left. You will soon find yourself under a power line, with cow pastures, the Meuse and, on the other side, the Romery quarries.
(3) Continue between the Meuse and a series of ponds. After the trout fishing pond, join the road. Follow it to the right towards Semeuse.
(4) At the crossroads, turn right again into Rue des Pêcheurs and continue along the3rd Engineer Regiment's military grounds.
At the end of the road, you will arrive close to the Meuse, at "la Piscine", where people used to swim. Turn left in front of the house.
The large Ballastière de l'Amicale (fishing society) is home to pairs of swans and other birds.
Follow the path along the ponds on your right.
(5) At the end of the ponds, turn left and continue to the road, passing a blockhouse and a building with a half-moon roof, made from recycled materials reminiscent of the American presence during the Second World War. You can also see the remains of the Est Électrique, which used to supply local energy.
At the top, take the pavement on the left to the first roundabout.
(6) Turn right onto Rue de la Fraternité, cross the railway line via the bridge, from where you can see the old Lumes marshalling yard below on the right.
At the second roundabout, turn left onto Rue de l'Égalité.
(7) Pass in front of the cemetery and continue to Place de l'Église Saint-Pierre (15th century).
Continue on the left, through a formerly agricultural area that is now residential, with old farms beautifully restored in Romery stone, as they should be. At the end of a perpendicular street on the left, you can see the bovine artificial insemination centre, the last building of the "Château" of Villers, which was destroyed after the last war in the 1960s.
(8) Just before the bridge, turn right onto a dirt track near a marshy area, home to a pair of herons that you may startle into flight.
(9) Turn left at the intersection, go under a bridge beneath the railway line and follow it along the embankment to the road.
(2) Follow it to the right and continue in the opposite direction to the outward route to return to the car park (S/E).
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