SEDAN

The starting point: the fortified castle (from the Porte des Princes car park)
Waymarking: Yellow
Sedan is a town set in the countryside... You realise this immediately as, with joy, you climb the last few steps of the ramparts surrounding this formidable fortress. After a few metres poppies can be seen, red dots in the pastoral landscape. The view is magnificent. Vast swathes of fields giving way in the distance to the slopes of the Ardennes which we will be joining as we go down towards the little valley where Givonne lies snuggled up...