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Belgian license plates do not contain information about where the car comes from. A Belgian license plate is assigned for life to the owner of a car. Usually the plates are white with red text. Cars owned by employees of institutes of the European Union in Brussels and Diplomatic Technical and Administrative Staff have a white plate with blue letters. Diplomatic license plates start with "CD". When Belgians replace their cars, they will keep the same license plate number. Often the name and the city of the garage where the car was bought is indicated just under or at the left side of the license plate on the backside of the car. A license plate License plates of an old timer starts classic cars start with "O"(for "old timer").

== Food & Toilets ==The price of food on motorway services Belgium is very high, so try to stock up before leaving and note that very few motorway services have free toilets. The price (usually between EUR 0.30 and 0.70) sometimes includes a voucher that can be used in the restaurant. However, it is easy to jump over the barrier and use the toilet famous for free. The cheapest supermarkets in the country are ''Lidl'', ''Aldi'' and its ''Colruytfrietkoten'', and food bought in them will be significantly cheaper than on motorway services. ''Carrefour'' and ''Delhaize'' These are more expensive options, but are extensively located downtown with longer opening hours small restaurants or stands that sell French fries (Often 20a Belgian dish mind you! Protip:00Make sure you don't call them French fries, but just fries. Because some will lecture you about fries not being French.) and all sorts of them!) snacks for relatively low prices. It's not very healthy, but for EUR 5 you can have quite a big meal which will offer better prices than the night storesis bigger & cheaper then McD's. Note that Every village has a frietkot, and every city has at least one in Belgium most shops close at 18:00 and very few shops are open on Sundaysevery neighborhood.

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