Gallery:Belgium
Reloaded after I decided to crop the picture...
I've broken with tradition and submitted a foreign picture, naughty me! However, this was taken towards the end of the motoring holiday me and SarahJ had in September, on the way back to Calais where we spent our last night before going home the following day. It was a particularly lovely sunset.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Oct 22, 2008 by Sabrista
Bd. de L'Impératrice, Brussels, 6 May 2009.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Nov 08, 2009 by SDL
This is close to the German border so signs and posters could be in any one of three languages. For example the yellow poster on the right has Sunday in German and French but only the German spelling of Belgium. The one above it has the English spelling of New.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Oct 07, 2009 by Truvelo
Maubeuge has been blanked out because the R5 Ring Road around Mons is incomplete and there's no direct route via this exit. This is what happens when you put up a sign before the road is built.
Also notice a replacement light column in the distance with an Eleco shaped bowl.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Jul 31, 2009 by Truvelo
Check out the price of LPG compared to the other fuels. It works out at under 30p.
Also check out the huge SOX lantern attached to the wall of the terraced houses, all of which have roller shutters over the windows. Is crime really that bad?
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Jul 30, 2009 by Truvelo
Taken from a bridge about a mile to the east of the GSJ
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Jul 28, 2009 by Truvelo
The same view taken with a bigger lens
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Jul 28, 2009 by Truvelo
The 5 lane, one-way Rue Belliard gives a great urban feeling
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Apr 06, 2009 by CborG
Driving on the E40
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Apr 06, 2009 by CborG
Driving through the Belliardtunnel in Brussels
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Apr 06, 2009 by CborG
Entrance to the Belliardtunnel
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Apr 05, 2009 by CborG
Driving trough the Chausee de Charleroi in Brussels
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Apr 05, 2009 by CborG
View on the motorway E19 in Belgium
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Mar 15, 2009 by CborG
Take a look at the lantern at the top of the picture
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Sep 21, 2007 by Truvelo
Lots of SOX lighting in use with four lanterns on each column in the central reservation
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Sep 11, 2007 by Truvelo
This roundabout junction between two motorways was due to be rebuilt into a full freeflow.
Notice the different styles of lighting in each country
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Sep 11, 2007 by Truvelo
The website shown on the gantry is for an upgrade of the current 3 level stacked roundabout to a full freeflow.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Sep 11, 2007 by Truvelo
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Apr 18, 2007 by J N Winkler
Old ADS near Gent?
I know brynn likes belguim motorways, so here is one for him
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Sep 30, 2006 by SarahJ
Belgium appears to favour Euroroute numbers over their own motorway designations. The E40 here is also part of Belgium's A18, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any direction signs with 'A18' on them. The kilometre posts, however, show the A number.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 17, 2006 by csd
Belgium has recently placed copies of fork signs in the central reservation. Handy if lane 1 is choked with trucks, and cheaper than a gantry. Wonder what it does for the safety record, though. Agree with IPJ1: the drivers in Belgium are truly awful!
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 17, 2006 by csd
This used to be the classic example of where the smooth Dutch surface gave way to the Belgian farce. But no more in fact, the Belgians must have done a spot of resurfacing here?
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
The last exit in Belgium on the route from Central Europe back to the British Isles.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
The last exit in Belgium on the route from Central Europe back to the British Isles.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
The E40 (A10/A12) has long connected the UK with the Low Countries and much of Central Europe. Three-lane and well-serviced for most of its length, but watch the drivers...!
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
Brussels' answer to GB's M25 or IRL's M50.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
Although perhaps not clear in this photo in western Brussels, the green sign to the right says 'Gand-Gent (GB)'. Is this the only instance of the UK being signed from the Continent?
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
The Brussels Ring is not complete as a ring - south of Brussels it disappears well off to the south. The result is that although the direct route from Brussels to Namur is the A4, if you leave from the west the signage takes you down the A7 and along the A54 (a kind of 'POBO'?) - this is the A7.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
Martelange is well south down the N4, at the end of a fairly long expressway section. Road surfaces in Belgium vary hugely - this wasn't too bad, but some have gone unresurfaced for decades, and it shows.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
With the exception of a small exclave in the west of the country, signage in Wallonia is wholly in French. Destinations in other countries - but not in Flanders - are given in the local language in brackets.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
The town of Athus near Arlon is a true border town - in Belgium, it borders both France and (the Grand Duchy of) Luxembourg directly.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
The Belgo-French border - we're in Belgium, but nearly all the destinations at the roundabout are in France.
Originally uploaded to Coppermine on Aug 01, 2005 by IJP1
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