Clive George wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Its a shade over 2 hours on te eurostart..now to get to London from
here probably would take..mm. 45 minutes to the station, say an hour
to london..then an hour in cross laiondon and 'wastage. due to train
times not exactly coinciding, then 2 hours to brussells..and about 45
minutes oiut to te airport etc.. so about 5 1/2 hours door to door.

Hour to cross London? KX - St Pancras is about 5 minutes walk...

Liverpool st actually. And I said 'wastage..'

If the tubes aren't closed, if the train arrives on time (it never does)..

anyone who expects to get off a train that is targeted to arrive in
Liverpool street on the hour, and catch one that departs St Pancras ten
minutes later, hasn't done it in real life ;-)

The days of 'guaranteed connections' are long gone. One of the reasons
people prefer their cars.