Looking into the options for a Easter family break in the Low Countries, I find that one possibility of a discount train ticket Brussels – Bruges is to travel for patriotic reasons. Yes, it’s in the English version of the pull down menu of the booking site of the Belgian railways.
I could understand this category on the Russian state railways. But in Belgium? Must be for beer festivals or something.
If you can prove that you, personally, convinced a Heineken drinker to have a Stella instead, you’re entitled.
LOL!
I am partly Belgian, but convincing anybody to have a Stella does not earn very much respect from me ;o)
There are so may other alternatives! How about convincing a strictly “Reinheitsgebot”-adhering Bavarian to switch to Lambic, Kriek and Gueuze instead? This should earn you some entitlement!
If anybody is wondering who actually is entitled to free train tickets based on patriotic reasons in Belgium, here is a list: http://www.b-rail.be/nat-r/E/tarifs/specialdiscount/patriot/categorie/index.php
It’s not very expensive for them to give free tickets to veterans from WWI, is it?
“How about convincing a strictly “Reinheitsgebot”-adhering Bavarian to switch to Lambic, Kriek and Gueuze instead? ”
I did that. Well, he’s not Bavarian, but Westfalian, but it still counts I reckon