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Rentals France - Alsace Lorraine: Marne au Rhine and Sarre Canals
Crossing the Moselle and Vosges regions from Hochfelden, near Strasbourg
Visit Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg, Colmar, Mulhouse, Arzviller
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***The boats are self-drive, and it is NOT required to have a permit (license). Easy to learn to use, experience not necessary.
Enjoy renting your canal boat rental in the Alsace Moselle Vosges region - discovering the canals of
Marne au Rhine, and de la Sarre from the base at Hochfelden (25 mins Strasbourg). Access by car (mostly autoroute from Strasbourg Airport), or railway (30 mins by train from Strasbourg). Ryanair flies into Karlsruhe-baden Airport (60 mins from Hochfelden) with flights to and from London Stansted, Stockholm, Rome, Cagliari, Alicante. Air Berlin also flies into the airport from Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna |
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DISCOVER CANAL BOAT RENTAL ACTIVITIES IN THE ALSACE LORRAINE REGION
Boats available for rental Enjoy taking your canal or cruise boat rental on the Marne to Rhine Canal from Hochfelden (SNCF railway station), 35 kms from Strasbourg, 121 kms from Nancy, 60 mins from Karlsruhe Baden Airport (Ryanair: flights to London Stansted, Stockholm, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Cagliari; Airberlin: flights to Berlin, Majorca, Lisbon, Moscow, Helsinki, all over Spain). Discover on the Canal des Houilleres de la Sarre. Explore this incredibly historical, natural, and gastronomically rich area, with many canal side villages with their restaurants, markets, and unique histories. You start from a village well known to beer lovers - the village of Hochfelden was brewing beer in 870 AD - and you can participate in the tradition by visiting the brewery of Meteor Beer Take the lovely Canal des Houilleres de la Sarre passing through the lovely Parc Regional de Lorraine, with beautiful lakes, fishing, wild life, to the villages of Sarralbe that was fortified in the 12th century, to Sarreguemines, busy trading center with its world famous faience and museum. Follow the Canal de la Marne au Rhin via the pretty villages of Gondrexange (fishing), Einville au Jard (home to the dukes of Lorraine and see Les Salines where they mine rock salt), to Nancy. Nancy has a magnificent main square (UNESCO lauded) - Place Stanislas (named after a King of Poland who made Nancy his home), wonderful art nouveau in architecture and glass - go to the Musee de l'ecole de Nancy) and Villa Majorelle. Go all the way to Strasbourg almost to the Rhine. Pass through Niderviller, and see its famous pottery looking at ceramics on show. Then taking tunnels under the Vosges mountains, experience the Saint Louis Arzviller boat lift "Le plan incliné", sliding down or up the side of hill (nearly 150 feet), which replaced 17 locks in 1969. Afterwards visit Lutzelbourg, with a picturesque ruined chateau on the hill above. Then onto Saverne with its red sandstone chateau - the Alsace Versailles - Chateau de Rohan - which even stunned Goethe! Getting thirsty? The canal continues through beautiful country and canal villages to Strasbourg with its modern European Parliament buildings, its "Petite France" riverside district, and the grand Notre Dame Cathedral with an enchanting spire. Suggested rentals
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