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DIRECTORY
Mobile Telephone
Networks
BASE
∑ base.be
Mobistar
∑ mobistar.be
Orange
∑ orange.lu
Post
∑ post.lu
Proximus
∑ proximus.be
Tango
∑ tango.lu
Neo-Gothic 20th-century post office building, Ghent
Internet Services
on Saturday mornings. The Nieuws, Het Nieuwsblad and De Luxembourg City
main post office in Brussels, at Morgen. The Grenz-Echo serves ∑ hotspot.lu
1 Boulevard Anspach, is open the German-speaking
from 9am to 7pm Monday to community in the east of the Proximus
Friday and from 10am to 4:30pm country. In Luxembourg, there ∑ proximus.be
on Saturday. In Luxembourg, are the Luxemburger Wort
opening hours are generally and Tageblatt.
from 8am to noon and again descendant of the original
from 1:30pm to 5pm. Post offices Television Radio Luxembourg which
are the place to buy stamps, was founded in 1933.
send registered mail and post Belgium has two primary Visitors to Belgium and
parcels. Blue “A Prior” stickers broadcasting worlds: French Luxembourg may barely
are needed for international and Dutch. Both have their become aware of such national
mail. Stamps of the most own state-funded arms. The distinctions how ever, because
common denominations are French-language one is the most hotel televisions are
available at some newsagents, Radio Télévision Belge de la supplied by cable or satellite,
tobacconists, postcard shops langue Française (RTBF), while with access to more than 40
and hotels. Mail boxes, often the Flemish-language version channels that come not only
still bearing the Thurn and Taxis is the Vlaamse Radio-en from local sources, but also, in
post-horn, are red in Belgium, Televisieomroep (VRT). a variety of languages, from
while in Luxembourg, they are Luxembourg is the base the neighbouring countries,
painted yellow. for the far-reaching Radio- including France, the UK,
Télé-Luxembourg (RTL), a Germany and the Netherlands.
Newspapers and
Magazines
Newspapers as well as
magazines in the English
language are available in most
of the main cities in Belgium
and Luxembourg. Brussels has
its own excellent trilingual
listings guide called Agenda
(also available online at www.
agenda.brussels). Belgian press
is split along the language-
divide. The main French-
language papers in this area
are Le Soir, La Libre Belgique and
La Dernière Heure (strong on
sports coverage). The main
Flemish and Dutch papers are
De Standaard, Het Laatste Neswpaper stand with a choice of English-language newspapers

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