The Greater Region’s gardens offer some of the best family friendly day excursions. “Gardens Without Limits” is a network of more than 20 top-notch gardens in Luxembourg, Lorraine and Saarland, with themes ranging from botanic and medicinal to classical and contemporary. Staff choice is the “Garden of Senses” near Merzig (photo), where visitors can meander from the meditation garden to tone garden, and turns itself into the “garden of lights” each August.

In French – www.jardins-sans-limites.com; in German – www.gaerten-ohne-grenzen.de