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Yes, people from Spain, Italy and France are driving different than Germans, Dutch or Scandinavians. The British drivers are often much politer and relaxter than Europeans from the continent.
Hence my "european-latin way of driving", I included these countries, as well as the south of Belgium
Sorry Antoine
, but Belgians does really have a bad reputation in their neighbour-countries. Actually most of the people have a bad reputation in their neighbor countries, here it is French people mostly. And within France, it is people from other departments.
This is often due to the fact that someone who is not in his country is easily distracted and lost. On the other hand, when you drive on a road that you know, the "tourists" are really annoying for you
I've also heard the rumour, that in Belgian you can drive as you want, because there aren nearly no police-controls. But this is not really correct, am I right, Antoine?
As fast as you want, you mean? Well it depends where, usually the points where cameras are are well known.
There is more controls in Flanders than in Wallonia. And recently it was discovered that due to lack of budget, many of the camera-boxes in Wallonia did actually not contain cameras (how stupid is this?
)Anyway I always respect speed limits. But I keep the 50 km/h limit of the city in roundabouts too, why slow down in these?
More than 30 km/h over the speed limit (only 90 km/h on highways) and you'll go in prison without any discussion.
If you get caught for more than 20 or 30 km/h over the limit in Belgium you lose your license for at least one week. If you get caught...