London to Belgium, with a car?

Merry, with regards to your first question, you can drive with a British car on the Continent. It's not that difficult but the person on the passenger seat needs to understand that he can see a bit more than the driver and must pass on those informations. Also only the passenger seat person can actually take tickets from car park entries etc. Yes, there still are car ferry boats and you can cross borders easily.

I've never been comfortable driving in the UK with RH drive. Evidently you have plenty of experience.

Because I grew up in NYC, and neither of my parents every owned a car in their entire lives, I have a different perspective than many. But I've been to Belgium at least seven times, and I never missed having a car. (I will say that we once drove from Cologne to Leuven, and dropped the car at BRU to go home. But that was a deliberate auto expedition that included the Floriade in Venlo NL. There were no major tourist cities on the trip.) You should think about whether you'll really want a car for the cities you want to visit. Belgium has superb local train service that isn't particularly expensive. Parking lots are expensive and have very narrow stalls and aisles. And big cities like Antwerp and Brussels have nasty traffic and narrow, one-way streets. Even small cities like Leuven have medieval street plans.

What I'm saying is that I used to go with my wife on business trips to Antwerp. Every morning I'd walk to the lovely Centraal Station and take a train to someplace like Mechelen or Gent and be back to have dinner with her at 6:30PM. To me, there is NO fun way to drive from London to Belgium.

Have you considered second-country drop-off-fees, weekly rental discounts, ferry fares, and ferries that don't take pedestrians in your calculations? You don't sound like a travel newbie at all, but you do sound America-centric in your car usage. (Not a slam, just attempting to read internet-affect. Sorry!)

I've taken an English car all over Western Europe. I kept getting in the left passenger seat out of habit, and my wife actually thought I wanted her to drive. She scares me to death driving.
The best and most efficient way to Brussels from London is on the Eurostar fast train.

After you're there, if you need a car, you can rent one with left hand drive.

Any reason why this 6-1/2 yr old post is being brought up? I don't see a new question.

Thank you Nancy. The specific reason may be the reorganization of the newsboards. Perhaps they should have a filter of some kind. We all have to learn the new layout. Too bad the new design doesn't include a "stale" flag. Yeah, I'm sorry I wasted my time,.