This is not a big boat, but sometimes there are container ships in the canal outside our apartment and they look rather disconcerting. From a distance it looks like they are in our garden.
The gate is about 8 metres from the working canal that connects the Baltic Sea (to the left) and huge Lake Mälaren (to the right) by means of a lock. The giant lake allows goods to be delivered ‘inland’ to many different cities.
A similar thing happened the last time I was in the Netherlands to visit Van Der Spek. This was a giant cruise ship next to where we were going for dinner
