The Fontaine-Couture refuge is situated in Théméricourt, at the heart of the Natural Regional Park of the Vexin-Français. The Park’s headquarters and the interesting museum it contains are just across the square, in the château. The village is calm and pretty between it’s two streams, the Guiry and the Aubette, but it is a crossroads too, of bicycling itineraries and hiking paths. The dilemma is therefore deciding between dawdling in the town’s streets and local paths or succumbing to the call of the horizon. So why choose? Stop awhile and then, refreshed, head off again on your chosen trail…