Cycling in Grande-Synthe

Walk from the Police station / City hall to the railway station (Bus lines 2/2A) Go straight ahead across Place de la Gare (Station in French) (Keep the station on your right and go into the street where the buses go) You arrive near the canal. Cross the street and start following a cycleway to the right This cycleway leads you under a smaller bridge reserved for buses, then under the bridge of the railroad Keep following the cycleway and the canal. Near Boulevard Verdi keep to the left When you passed under a bridge and over another bridge over the water, go on and start following Avenue de Petite-Synthe. Buses 1, 1A and A pass here. After 3,5km near bus stop Artois (2 football fields on your right hand side), you arrive on a roundabout where bus 1 turns to the right. Keep going straight on like bus 1A. On an oval roundabout where bus 1A goes to the right, you go to the left on Rue du Mont des Cats Continue straight on Rue de Bourbourg Go right on Rue du Westhoek Then left on Rue de la Haye After Place de la Haye, go straight on onto Boulevard des Fédérés Go left on Avenue du 1er Mai Straight on Allée Célestin Freinet Turn right on Avenue de la Polyclinique We find bus lines 1 and 9 here again. Continue to bus stop Fleming. Go left on Rue Alexander Fleming And again left on Passage Garnaerstraete Opposite house number 14, you find a small street on your left. It leads you to some trees, then you find a small tunnel under the motorway. When you see the railroad, go right and follow until the parking lot. Now cross the street where you see large roundabout on your right and a railway bridge on your left. Be very careful here. There is a lot of traffic and no official crossing. Find a hole in the fence. Then go left. You have arrived at the camp.