UK signs to European locations/UK towns signed in European locations?

[Rob590]

Heading to the ferry port in IJmuiden last week, I noticed that it was actually signed as to Newcastle. This struck me as interesting as we usually don't name the destination of ferries on road signs in the UK, presumably because they may change if the ferry company were to change routes.

Obviously discounting signs in or to Ireland, are there any other examples either of British locations signed outside the UK, or foreign places signed from within the UK?

[AndrewGPaul]

Edit - I was being nitpicky and annoying. Sorry

[exiled]

Gibraltar has 'Spain' on a number of its roadsigns, and Gibraltar itself is signed on the Spanish side of the border.

[si404]

The SBAs will have signs, not least as they have motorways through them, though whether they are to European locations depends on how much of a geography pedant you are.

[Owain]

The Isle of Man/Douglas is signed in central Liverpool. That's not in the UK.

[WHBM]

Liverpool docks, from which a Ro-Ro service is operated across the Atlantic on a couple of otherwise container ships, has a "Motorway to the USA" sign above the dock gate.

[c2R]

Dublin from Birkenhead: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.40171 ... 312!8i6656

[Owain]

There is an arrow-shaped sign in Civitavecchia, Italy, that simply says "Sardegna" on it, without any mention of a ferry!

[Johnathan404]

Dublin from Birkenhead: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.40171 ... 312!8i6656

Sadly forbidden in the original post, but it's a great sign.

Portsmouth gets around that by using the phrase "continental ferries". Does that count as a European location?

[c2R]

Dublin from Birkenhead: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.40171 ... 312!8i6656

Sadly forbidden in the original post, but it's a great sign.

Portsmouth gets around that by using the phrase "continental ferries". Does that count as a European location?

I took the original post to mean the forbiddenness was either signposting of NI destinations in the UK or ROI from NI

[c2R]

How about London from Amsterdam on the A4:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.27947 ... 312!8i6656

I think it's gone now, along with the roadworks which have widened this section of D5M to D5M+3M (or whatever the notation for more lanes than you can shake a stick at is!

[Andy P]

Not in or to the UK, but Stockholm and Helsinki are signed in many places in Tallinn without mentioning that it is by ferry (nor in the case of Stockholm that it is a 17 hour journey).

Example:
https://goo.gl/maps/CpKdpgHGUtA2

[c2R]

Not in or to the UK, but Stockholm and Helsinki are signed in many places in Tallinn without mentioning that it is by ferry (nor in the case of Stockholm that it is a 17 hour journey).

...and a very alcoholic one it can be, at that...!

[exiled]

Some signs around Zeebrugge direct traffic to Hull. Some are clearly commercial ones in the port itself, there are a couple that look like they are put up by the Flemish authorities.

[Owain]

Not in or to the UK, but Stockholm and Helsinki are signed in many places in Tallinn without mentioning that it is by ferry (nor in the case of Stockholm that it is a 17 hour journey).

One of the biggest thrills I had on my trip to Finland was driving along Route 7 and seeing St Petersburg on a roadsign.

[brombeer]

How about London from Amsterdam on the A4:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.27947 ... 312!8i6656

I think it's gone now, along with the roadworks which have widened this section of D5M to D5M+3M

Plus the sign was just past its lifetime and nobody was interested in paying the costs of replacing this sign or some comparable signs placed at the outskirts of Amsterdam at the occasion of some 1990s EU thingy.

Where signs in the UK point you to a ferry port, signs around Dutch ferry ports tend to say [ferry][destination]. This is a general rule for ports to the islands and the principle is followed in IJmuiden for the ferry to Newcastle. Signs around Hook of Holland used to say Harwich, but when a freight RoRo service to Killingholme was added there, they replaced the signs to say England.

Overall, the number of changes in ferry routes is so low that I cannot see it as a valid reason for not signposting the destination. There are more complete closures (which would result in adjustments either way) than additions and reroutings, and each remains a rare event.

[Ambosc79]

Not in or to the UK, but Stockholm and Helsinki are signed in many places in Tallinn without mentioning that it is by ferry (nor in the case of Stockholm that it is a 17 hour journey).

One of the biggest thrills I had on my trip to Finland was driving along Route 7 and seeing St Petersburg on a roadsign.

I remember seeing a sign to "Le Caire" in Tunisia, where the bridge to Djerba joined one of the main highways on the mainland. And being pretty surprised to hear that was French for Cairo

[Owain]

Not in or to the UK, but Stockholm and Helsinki are signed in many places in Tallinn without mentioning that it is by ferry (nor in the case of Stockholm that it is a 17 hour journey).

One of the biggest thrills I had on my trip to Finland was driving along Route 7 and seeing St Petersburg on a roadsign.

I remember seeing a sign to "Le Caire" in Tunisia, where the bridge to Djerba joined one of the main highways on the mainland. And being pretty surprised to hear that was French for Cairo

It must be a Latin thing - the Italians call it 'Il Cairo'.

[exiled]

One of the biggest thrills I had on my trip to Finland was driving along Route 7 and seeing St Petersburg on a roadsign.

I remember seeing a sign to "Le Caire" in Tunisia, where the bridge to Djerba joined one of the main highways on the mainland. And being pretty surprised to hear that was French for Cairo

It must be a Latin thing - the Italians call it 'Il Cairo'.

El Cairo in Spanish. I think this is closer to the Arabic name.

[jgharston]

I take it this doesn't count