The variations on motoring rules between EU countries was highlighted again for me when in the Netherlands last weekend - I visited some Dutch friends who had recently been over to our Imp National weekend - to which they bring their Imp on a custom-made A-frame towed behind their Bedford CF motorhome (fitted with Rover V8 engine
). I was discussing the relative costs of the ferries - particularly Hull-Rotterdam versus Dover-Calais, and my friends remarked that Dover-Calais route whilst relatively cheap was more or less ruled out as the A-frame towing was illegal in Belgium so they'd have to take a very circuitous route......