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Article: Floating through Europe. (author's barge cruise from Strasbourg to Nancy)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 1989
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Floating through Europe
WE DID not see "the tiny walled town of Boersch," "the eighteen-century monastic wall paintings of Saverne," nor "the Chagall windows in the peace chapel in Lutzelbourg," all of which had been promised in Floating through Europe's appetizing brochure of a six-day cruise on the hotel barge Lys from Strasbourg, capital of Alsace, to Nancy, capital of Lorraine. On the other hand, we did get an afternoon's cruise on the Moselle, which the brochure had not mentioned, and a night's stay at picturesque Toul. No matter. Canal travel is like that. Waters can be too high or too low, locks break down, and channels need dredging. Passengers learn ...