What do most normal people do when they have a spare afternoon to kill In London? Visit the zoo, take a trip to Big Ben, walk around one of the big smoke’s many parks or do what I did and jump on a train to Paris? To be fair the Eurostar is one of the many reasons why I love living in London and I think anyone should try and use it at least once. Fair enough it doesn’t appear to be great in the snow, but then again neither am I.  I’ve used it twice now and think its bloomin’ wonderful.

From a wheelchair point of view its one of the best experiences of public transport and customer service I’ve had. They only have two wheelchair spaces on the trains but both of these are in first class carriages. The best thing is that if you are travelling in a wheelchair then you don’t pay first class prices, instead it’s about £60 for the person in the wheelchair and the same again for the person they are travelling with. Not only that but you still get the free meals and drinks included that you would expect if you were travelling first class. They also cater for food intolerances so I was able to get a really high quality gluten free breakfast and evening meal, which for anyone who is gluten free will know this is not easy!  More info on access on the Eurostar can be found here http://tiny.cc/RgeTm and you can get tickets here http://tiny.cc/EHETq.

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