NZ +24: Things NZ gets right... and wrong... (4)

I don't know if you would call this right or wrong, but it's certainly different and more American than it is British. You can choose your own car number plate here, and it can be anything you like. It doesn't have to have a fixed number of numbers and letters or any numbers at all.

Consequently, in a fairly small car park at the very nice garden centre where we had lunch today, you can see...



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As you can see from the last one, you seem able to add your own words and letters to make phrases. It's turned into a game now (a) spotting them - we saw SPINE, which was the number plate of a mobile chiropractor, but didn't have a camera handy - and (b) deciding what your own might be...