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Starting point and access: Verneuil-l'Etang station.
- Transilien - Line P, on the section between Paris-Est and Provins.
Take the only exit, platform 1, towards Provins (if arriving from the opposite direction, take platform 2 and use the footbridge).
Red and white + blue signposts
(S/E) When you leave the station, turn right onto Rue de la Gare. Ignore Rue Pasteur on the left (this will be our return route) and then Rue La Fontaine on the right. At the stop sign (bar-tabac), continue straight ahead on Rue de la Gare. At the T-junction, turn left onto Rue Arthur Chaussy. Ignore the perpendicular streets and stay on this main road, which curves to the right after about 200 metres.
Red, white, blue and green signposts
(1) At the end of the street, at a crossroads, continue straight ahead along the grassy path that starts to the left of an EDF electricity substation (no sign here). Walk along the edge of the woods (on your right) and the field (on your left). At the crossroads at the corner of the Grange Saint-Père (a beautiful farm), turn right (east) onto a good path, still along the edge of the woods. After passing between two fields, follow a wooded area with a fence on your left until you reach another crossroads (metal post with multiple markers).
Red and white + green signposts
(2) Turn left (north) onto a shaded path that descends slightly. Leave the woods and continue along the edge with the village of Chaumes-en-Brie in sight, recognisable by its church steeple and... its water tower.
(3) Go through a metal gate and cross the D32 road (be careful). Go through a metal gate and take the wide Allée Jehan Michel (signposted) heading north, leaving a small house on your left. The shaded lane is actually the platform of an old railway line and the small house is a former gatekeeper's house.
(4) Cross the bridge over the Yerres (nice view) and continue along the tree-lined lane.
(5) At a point where the right-hand side of the lane is lighter, take a narrow path that descends to the left. Be careful to spot this path: there is a red and white cross on a tree further along on the right-hand side and a red and white marker on a small tree on the left at the start of the path. (ignore two very old crosses on the same tree). Follow this narrow path through the undergrowth or along small plots of land. Cross a stream (footbridge) then turn right and left and continue winding your way between the fenced gardens.
At the end of this path, turn right onto a tree-lined boulevard (ignore a yellow arrow pointing left, twoPR® signs here).
Green + yellow markings (sparse and intermittent, with the two colours alternating regularly)
(6) At Place Massa (more of a crossroads than a square), leave theGR®1heading north and turn left at a right angle into Rue Parmentier. Cross a larger street (Rue Foix, with a view of the church on the right) and take Rue Louis Quinton. Note two plaques in this street in memory of the Couperin family (famous musicians), one on the right and one on the left. At the war memorial, turn right into Rue du Cloître.
At the next crossroads, turn left and then right into Rue de l'Archelet. Pass Rue Agasse (agasse = magpie; view of the church on the right) and continue along Rue de la Poterne. Cross another street and pass the water tower (on your right). At the next intersection, turn left onto Rue René Quinton. Opposite No. 3, turn right (signposted "Clos des Hauts de Bréjon"). Continue for a few metres towards a house.
(7) Turn left onto a narrow path. Be careful to spot this very discreet path: on the left, there is a green marker on a small tree and a house with a terrace; on the right, there is a wooden gate. Walk between fenced gardens and come out onto a large meadow with a group of oak trees in the middle. Continue west, walking along the meadow on your right and a fence on your left. At a T-junction, turn right onto a small road downhill. After two left-right turns, leave the main road turning left and go down Chemin de Thiou (a dead end), which continues as a path leading to Gués de Thiou.
(8) Cross a stream either by wading or using a footbridge on the left of the path. Then turn right to cross the second stream on a footbridge. Continue along a wide path which quickly gives way to a small road. Ignore a path on the left (EDF electricity substation) and continue uphill. At the stop sign, continue straight ahead on La Grande Rue (ignore the yellow arrow indicating a right turn; there are two differentPR® signs at this location). After a few dozen metres (sign for "La Billoterie"), ignore the street on the left, continue on La Grande Rue and follow the Ferme de Forest on your right.
(9) At the crossroads opposite the main entrance to the farm, turn left towards Chaumes-en-Brie (sign) and pass a beautiful ivy-covered house on your right. At a fork (Croix Sainte-Hélène), take the path on the right that enters a wood. Further on, walk along the edge of the woods (on your left) and fields (on your right). Enter the woods again and stay on the main path, heading south-west then south-south-west. After two sharp left-right turns, you will come out onto the D48 road.
(10) Cross the road (be careful), go past the forest barrier opposite and continue along a path through the woods. At the fork that appears immediately, take the right-hand path (the wider one), heading south. Descend gently through the woods, then along the edge of the woods and finally between two hedges. Cross the Yerres river on a wooden bridge and climb up opposite with a hedge on your left. At the top of the hill, note a tower and an old well on the right, ignore a small road on the left and continue south on a path. At the T-junction, turn left onto a wide track and follow the gardens with fruit trees on your left.
No signposts
(11) At the next junction (house on the left), leave the signposting on your right, cross the small road and take a grassy path that heads east and quickly turns left (north-east). At the corner of a wood, turn right (east, do not enter the wood). At the T-junction that follows, turn right onto a wide path between the fields and join the small road.
Green + yellow markings (same remarks as above)
(12) Turn left and follow the small road, passing a craft area on your right. Cross the D402 road (take care), continue straight ahead, enter Verneuil-l'Etang and pass Rue Georges Brassens on your right. At the next junction, turn right onto Rue Pasteur towards the station (sign). At the end of the street, turn right to immediately return to the station, which is clearly visible (ignore the green arrow indicating a left turn) (S/E).
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