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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
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Austria offers free rail travel for a year – if you get a tattoo

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People who get a tattoo of Austria’s new railcard have been offered free train travel for a year.

Rail fares usually feel like they cost an arm and a leg – but under this scheme, it’s a patch of skin in exchange for an annual railcard worth more than €1,000.

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