Via the hamlet of Borsu and the grounds of Hoyoux Castle from Méan

The Salle de Méan, just before the north-western exit of Méan, has a large car park where you can park easily.

(S/E) Leave the car park and turn right. This path (a bumpy track) runs past the refreshment kiosk and the football pitches, crosses a stream and continues to a crossroads.

(1) Ignore the return path straight ahead and turn right for about 200 m until you reach a junction.

(2) Take a barely visible narrow path on the left. This first runs alongside a meadow, then enters the undergrowth and zigzags between the trees. The path widens as it runs alongside a copse. You’ll return to tarmac as you enter the village of Borsu. Continue to the crossroads near the church.

(3) Leave the church on your right, cross the road carefully and turn right (slightly to the left) onto Rue Bouresse.
You’ll then begin the longest stretch along the road, which is a bit less interesting… It meets a junction with a road coming from the left.

For the shorter route (6.7 km)
Keep the church on your right, take Rue de l’Agauche on your left for 200 or 300 metres, then take the first left to leave the village. After 400 m, you’ll rejoin the original route by turning left. Head straight to No. 9.

(4) Ignore the road on the left towards “la Campagne”. Carry on straight ahead, past the buildings, and continue to the next crossroads.

(5) Turn left towards Hoyoux Castle. It’s a long, tree-lined avenue.

(6) At the château, turn left. Go round a small pond on the right, cross a small bridge, stay on the tarmac road and continue to the next junction, where a road veers off to the right.

(7) Take this small road, which climbs, passes a farm and leads to Ôdet, where it joins Rue de l’Arêne at a bend.

(8) Turn right until you reach the main road. There, turn left and, after about a hundred metres, you’ll come to a street that veers to the right.

(9) Follow this street to the arbour. This path goes downhill, then uphill again, running alongside a small wood, before going downhill once more to the crossroads you passed on the way there.

(1) Go straight on, then take the path back towards the Salle de Méan and the car park (S/E).