Is it possible to travel on river/canal from Bruges, Belgium to some point on the Rhine?

Is it possible to travel on river/canal from Bruges, Belgium to some point on the Rhine?

7/20/2022 7:20:59 PM

UNECE has a very good map of European waterways available here: https://unece.org/DAM/trans/main/sc3/AGN_map_2018.pdf

Here you can see that there are quite a few options. The route north to the Netherlands has already been mentioned, but you can also go south to France, and then across to the Rhine.

7/20/2022 2:10:30 PM

Yes, from Brugge you can follow the Boudewijnkanaal to Zeebrugge, then turn North to where the Merwede and Rhine reach the North Sea.

Granted, this is not exclusively a canal/river trip, so your boat needs to be seaworthy.

7/20/2022 3:42:02 PM

According to Eurocanals site, the answer is yes. One possible route is: Brugge – Gent – Antwerpen – Dordrecht – Nijmegen – Düsseldorf. From there you can even join the Danube River and the Black Sea.

7/19/2012 12:20:17 PM

I found the following map (Source: http://www.yachtchartersneek.nl/waterkaart_Belgie_vaarwegen.htm)
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The map is from a charter company, which have suggested routes on their website. One mentions a connection from Bruges to Ghent.
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From Ghent on there a multiple possibilities.

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