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the canal that takes you from the mediterranean to the atlantic - and back again. it's a huge deal around here, although not much use for else than duckies and tourists any more

Sooo ... exactly what am I looking at? I checked out the seaway map connecting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (you know, where Gibraltar is located) and it's a few miles wider than the canal picture you have here.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gibra ... d-5.353585

wrong place, this one was carved across france, east to west:



ah, i picked a map with the southern dialect, where they toss in an extra a/e after everything.

and this is what it usually looks like:



yep, looks solid enough to walk across...

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Well, see there, I learned something new. I had no idea France built their own version of the Panama Canal. That's an amazing feat when you think about it. Then again, it looks beautiful, but I have to wonder why they did it. Did they have some kind of grudge about Spain and want nothing to do with them? Or what?

a bit of its history:

https://www.francetoday.com/learn/histo ... l-du-midi/