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Above Neuves-Maisons the Canal des Vosges (formerly known as the southern section of the Canal de l’Est), which runs alongside the Moselle, allows narrowboats to progress upstream as far as Épinal and provides a connection via the Saône and Rhone with the Mediterranean. There are long-term plans to upgrade this route to take large barges. The Canal de la Marne au Rhin provides a connection for narrowboats from Toul west to the Paris basin (and ultimately the North Sea) and from Frouard east to the middle Rhine at Strasbourg. These canals have little commercial traffic nowadays and are mostly used by leisure craft.

The route

The major part of the route described in this book follows two long-distance cycle tracks, the French Véloroute de la Moselle from Épinal to Schengen, which is part of a much longer north–south route across eastern France called the Véloroute Charles-le-Téméraire; and the German Mosel-Radweg from Schengen to Koblenz. These two tracks differ markedly in their continuity and state of completion.