Description: Start from the small car park in the centre of Vesegnin, next to the Domaine de la Boissière. You can find the exact starting point on the map further down if you don’t know the area.
Follow the road that goes through the centre of Vesegnin. After around 200 meters you will see a small apartment building, and here you take left and follow the small road that takes you down to the river Lion.
Follow the path until it takes you back on to Route du Maroc, take right and almost immediately to the left and you will see that you are on promenade de Gotaz.
Just before you come to the first house on your left you cut across the field. After a few meters you will meet the path that comes from Chemin des Etalles and you follow this pathway back to you starting point.
Description: I started this walk from the small car park in the centre of Vesegnin, next to the Domaine de la Boissière. You can find the exact starting point on the map further down if you don’t know the area. Further away, next to the elementary school of Grand Chènes, there’s a bigger car park and also a play area for those kids who still have some energy left to burn after the walk.
Starting from the Vesegnin car park, you walk along Route de Vesegnin through the small hamlet of buildings. After about 500 meters, take left onto Promenade de la Manchette.
Continue straight on. After another 500 meters, take left and follow the promenade de la Manchette. Keep walking straight on, after yet another 500 meters you again keep to the left and walk through a small barrier and continue straight on.
Now, walk until you see a bridge on your left side. Cross the bridge and you will see a small pathway that takes you along the river Le lion. In the springtime when there is plenty of water you may come across one or two people fishing.
If you are the proud owner of a fishing rod and would like to try catching a nice trout or two, don’t forget to buy the fishing licence before you start fishing. You can get this at the tourist information. Fun fact: women pay less for these licences in France, as a way to promote fishing as a less gender-specific activity!
Walking along Le Lion is peaceful, and you won’t meet a lot of people. In the springtime, you will be sure to smell the wild garlic that grows here in large quantities.
If you pay attention to the river you will also see the point where the rivers Le Lion and Le Grand Journans meet.
Where the pathway joins the road, continue to the right, and soon you will be walking past a small farm with chickens, horses and cows.
Continue along this road until you reach a roundabout. Here, keep right and walk on the Vie Detraz through another roundabout. When you reach the third roundabout, take right and you’ll soon be on the carriage road again.
When you are back at the bridge where you found the pathway, you now take left and continue back to Vesegnin.
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