La Louvière

News site Bel RTL quoted Jacques Gobert, mayor of the neighbouring town of La Louviere, as saying around 150 people were gathered to get ready for the annual folklore parade, involving costumes and drums, when the vehicle appeared.

Nathalie Moermans and her 16-year-old daughter Marie traveled the nearly 550 yards from their home in the city of La Louvière to their local McDonald’s in a cardboard “car.”

But as a complement to the Van Gogh, contemporary Flemish master Luc Tuymans' print show in the nearby ex-mining town of La Louviere is thought-provoking.

Between these woods are two openings, or Trouées as they are called in the country—the Trouée de la Louvière, and the Trouée d'Aulnoet.

In Belgium the great steel mills in Liege, Charleroi and La Louviere are shut.