A few miles from Brugge, you have the small town of Damme.
In the Middle-Ages, this used to be the harbour of Brugge, one of the wealthiest cities in the North.
Due to silt the North Sea is now about 25 miles out, but Damme retained it's reputation for good food and beer, wonderful old buildings full of the history of revolutionary Flanders.
Centuries later Napoleon saw the importance of the area and ordered a system of canals to be built.
Today, whichever road you come from, if you want to get to Damme, you'll drive along those beautiful treelined canals.
I walked across a small path at a major junction, in Oostkerke, of those magnificent, unique tree lined canals, this one started under my feet.Behind me are syphons and sluices.
The edge frilled with the giant leaves of wild rhubarb it stretched as far as I could see and got lost in the clouds, just like was described in the poems and songs of Jacques Brel.
Two rows of trees on the left, three on the right, UNIQUE!
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