A Comprehensive Guide to Bicycle Racing in Belgium

Navigation in Belgium ...

There are no straight roads in Belgium, so getting lost is going to be part of the adventure. I would always recommend bringing a map with you and familiarizing yourself with the name of where you are staying and the main towns near to where you staying. Signage in Belgium can be a bit ambiguous at times and they don’t usually give directions via a street or road name, but instead by direction. Ie. you go to the town of X and then direction of town Y to find your way to town Z where you stay.

When you come to a T intersection there can sometimes be signs for “Town X” in one direction and the other directions a sign for “Anderen Richting”. This literately translates to “Other Direction”. So if you aren’t going to Town X, you are going the “Other Direction”.