BOUCLE BEZANGE-LA-GRANDE

Mid-March is daffodil season and you don't have to go to town to find plenty of them. This route will allow you to find enough without the crowds (D) Departure at Bezange-la-Grande, on the parking of "la Maison pour tous", on the D23A. Follow the D23A on the left for about 120 meters. (1) Just after the sign "Rue des Jonquilles", take on the right the road which goes up slightly. Follow this road which gives way to a limestone path for about 2300 meters as you enter the forest. (2) At the intersection, take the path on the right (at 90°) and continue on this forest path for 1400 meters. (3) At the intersection, turn right onto the "Tranchée de la Basse Lignière" (indicated on a wooden sign) for about 800 meters. You arrive on a clearing paved with limestone stones. (4) In the middle of this clearing, you will find on the right a path that climbs steeply to the top of the slope(5) for about 80 meters. You will then see a field of daffodils in front of you. Good picking. Return by the same path to the clearing. (4) Take the trench to the right until the edge of the wood. (6) Cross the small field straight ahead, then the wood by forking very slightly to the right (along the old trenches of the 1914-18 war) to reach a country road at the exit of the wood. (7) Turn right and follow this road for about 1000 meters. At the intersection, take the road on the right for about 180 meters, then turn left at the next fork to reach Bezange-la-Grande. Drive along the soccer field and, at the intersection with the D23a, turn right to reach the parking lot. You have arrived.