Le Grand Gabarit: Fontinettes Ecluse

Wanderlust floating upwards inside the Fontinettes Ecluse

Wanderlust floating upwards inside the Fontinettes Ecluse

Between our first inland stop at Watten and our second at Béthune lies 48 km of the Grand Gabarit, the main commercial navigational artery in this region of Europe. Le Grand Gabarit, also known as the Canal Dunkerque-Escaut, is a 189 kilometer-long linked sequence of large waterways. It is the water equivalent of a superhighway. This day, we traveled a portion of Continue reading