That's French for pothole. Which we're seeing a lot of these days, especially on the autoroute, due to the unusually cold winter. Big stretches of the middle lane are almost undriveable because of the round holes created where the 2-inch top layer of asphalt has disappeared. (Especially on the stretch between St-Ghislain and the R5,where the right hand lane has been closed for some mysterious reason for over a year, forcing the trucks to drive in the middle lane.)
Belgian roads are notoriously ill cared for. You can do some serious damage to your alignment on them. We joke, only we're not really kidding, that Strassenschaeden ("damaged road surface" in Germany) equates to "a really good road" in Belgium. That's how bad it is: what's considered a bad road in Germany is like freshly paved to us.
3 comments:
Oh, the memories ;) pot holes and black ice -- gotta love that combo!
Hard to believe you're in the "home" stretch! I remember it well - bittersweet...
Miss you guys!
B.
Maybe this is why they don't plow the roads when it snows -- there wouldn't be any asphalt left.
DeeAnne
Seems like the American Pothole fillers must take a leaf from the Belgian book. At least you won't be too surprised when you get back here. The roads are really, really terrible this year.
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