Hike for August 27

Next Wednesday, Michel Brown will lead us on an almost countryside like walk along the “Gondoire” and “Brosse” streams:

 

A 15 to 16 km walk will lead us from Lagny to Torcy.  From the Lagny-Thorigny train station we’ll cross the Marne river to walk east along the bourgeois mansions of Lagny.  After the harbor will leave the Marne to walk south, up the hill and through the woods of Chigny where Van Dongen resided a few years.  Once we reach the village of Chanteloup en Brie we’ll  take the valley of the Gondoire, a small stream, find a nice picnic spot on the stream and after lunch walk all the way to the village of Gouvernes and the Castle of Guermantès (I think Proust only used the name), we’ll take a quick look a the castle from the gate and walk down to the Brosse valley, another of these small streams that flow into the Marne.  To finish, from the Brosse valley up, we’ll cross the gardens of Rentilly, now a public garden and cultural space to get to the RER A station of Torcy close by.

 

To come, take the 9h30 train from Paris Gare de l’est station, “P” line going to Meaux.  Lagny-Thorigny is the third stop.  I’ll wait for you at the station at 10.  To return to Paris you’ll take the A RER line to where you want, trains every ten minutes and half an hour to Nation of Gare de Lyon.

 

My cell: 06.49.85.25.07

 

Michel