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| Our base at Lutzelbourg provides an Alsatian
welcome, with its castle and its famous crystal workshops. Whichever
way you cruise, half-timbered houses gay with window-boxes, onion domed
church-towers, intricate wrought-ironwork and a hundred small details
give the villages a festive air.
Wherever you stop, you’ll find the food equally special : choucroute and charcuterie as well as the mouthwatering plum and greengage tarts. Cruising the Canal de la Sarre you pass mainly through woodland with the odd small town to tempt you with a restaurant meal. At Sarreguemines you’ll be charmed by the hand-decorated pottery. On your return you’ll travel on the boat lift at Arzwiller which replaces 17 locks. Following the Marne-Rhine Canal you pass through Saverne with its ducal palace and across the Alsatian plain to the heart of Strasbourg. |
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At Toul, a town fortified by Vauban and enjoying fine
views over the loops of the river Moselle, you are entering Lorraine. Its
countryside is just as fine as its cities, of which Nancy and Metz are
the high points.
New : In Lorraine and the Ardennes locks will stay open on Easter Sunday, Whitsun and on the 14th July. In Alsace locks will operate at Easter and Whitsun, and probably on the 14th July (check at the time of booking). ACCESS
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| Cruise suggestions:
From Lutzelbourg Cruises : Out and back One week :
Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Mittersheim, Sarralbe
Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Dombasle, Nancy
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Ten / eleven days :
Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Sarreguemines, Saverne 212 km, 82 locks, 4h 45 / day Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Nancy, Liverdun, Toul, Messein,
Dombasle, Lutzelbourg (Circle of Moselle)
Two weeks :
Lutzelbourg, Arzviller, Dombasle, Nancy, Metz
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