Thread: Eurostar travel

I recently went to Brussels on the Eurostar, for you colonials that's a train that travels from London to Paris/Brussels via the channel tunnel. Being a train it never occured to me that a straight would be a problem and packed my usual wash/shave kit.

So I got to Kings Cross and as you go through to departures they've got the metal detectors and the chimps checking bags, etc. Bad news - I was expecting customs but not the security theatre.

Sure enough I put my bag through the machine and get pulled to the side so they can go through all my personal stuff without my permission, out comes my wash kit and then the chimp finds the Wapi.

So I'm pretty p*d off that I'm going to lose it but - hey a Wapi ain't that expensive! Anyway the chimp wanders over to the trainer with my Wapi and asks him if it's OK and blow me if he doesn't just nod.

That's it, I just thought it might be useful info if anyone else is going on Eurostar in the near future . . . your straights are safe