Why is it that crossing the Belgium-Luxembourg border by train is so expensive? To travel from Gouvy, the last Belgian station on the Liege to Luxembourg route, to Luxembourg City costs €40 first class. Six minutes down the line, at Troisvierges, it's just €4. Go figure...
And, talking of Luxembourg...
It's actually rather lovely here, with the trees turning from green to red and gold. It's also bigger than I remember, as my train from Troisvierges took more than an hour to reach Luxembourg City. And no, the train isn't slow...
On this day in... 2007
There have been more absurd rulings in the history of the Party's candidate selections, but the 2007 ruling that endorsements for a leadership candidate also represented a potential endorsement by the leadership candidate of the person endorsing them was undoubtedly one of the worst. And, as a Returning Officer, I did what any proper liberal would do - I ignored it. And, given the utter mess that the English Party is making of the Police and Crime Commissioner selections at the moment...
There must be a joke about wise and foolish virgins in there somewhere ...
ReplyDeleteIIRC, there's an EU regulation that prohibits state aid to international trains but not to ones that stay entirely within one country.
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