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It still amazes me how dense the European waterways are. For example, it is possible to travel from Switzerland to Budapest by boat fairly directly via Rhine, M

by lqet 7y ago

It still amazes me how dense the European waterways are. For example, it is possible to travel from Switzerland to Budapest by boat fairly directly via Rhine, Main and Danube, without going through the Mediterranean. Somehow, this seems completely counter-intuitive.

cwmma 7y ago
or the fact you can go from Amsterdam to the black sea fairly directly and from there to st. petersburg is even more mind boggling
- Doxin 7y ago
  The fact that Amsterdam has a harbour in the first place is pretty amazing, it's not exactly a coastal city.
  - lqet 7y ago
    It isn't? https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/52.7870/5.4190 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/52.7870/5.4190 The third largest port of Europe, Hamburg, is 110 kilometers away from the coast. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/53.6002/10.1280 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/53.6002/10.1280
    - Doxin 7y ago
      I suppose my definition of coastal city is somewhat skewed since I live in a country that's only about 200 kilometers wide :P
    - cwmma 7y ago
      My favorite one of these is Iquitos in Peru, which is an Atlantic port, reachable by ocean going vessels, 2,200 miles away from the ocean
roelschroeven 7y ago
Some of the waterways even feature grade-separated junctions. The largest one is near Magdeburg: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Water_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Water_Bridge, and for the pictures https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Kanalbr%C3%BCcke+Magdeburg&t=ffcm&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Kanalbr%C3%BCcke+Magdeburg&t=ffcm&...