St Pancras to Brussels-Midi

The new Eurostar trains are terrific. The (rather light) vegan 'meal' was at least tasty and balanced. Well seasoned grains and seeds with slices of butternut squash lightly spiced with cinnamon, followed by fruit and coffee.

It is a ahame my first visit to Brussels was only 20 minutes long; easily enough time to get over to the international ICE train on the next platform though.

The train was a decent vantage point to catch a glimpse of the 'Lombard' building with its large billboard of Tin Tin and Snowy pitched on top. Starting to get into the swing of 'ride by tourism' for this trip.Read more