The Schipdonk and Leopold canals are well known in the Bruges surroundings as the Blinker and the Stinker. The canals were dug in the mid-19th century to ensure the drainage of the East Flanders polders, and from the very beginning, the Leopold Canal earned the flattering label 'Blinker' thanks to its pure Meetjesland water. The Schipdonk Canal, the link between the - at that time severely polluted - Leie and the North Sea, was categorically accused of being a stinker...
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