St Pancras. Still feels dingy, chaotic, and more like a place that you travel through than to, but we hardly need to tell you that changes are afoot here.

Today is the last day that the Eurostar will leave from Waterloo (au revoir!), transferring all services, overnight, to the new super slick St Pancras.

And should you be eager to test drive this new route, may we suggest pulling a sickie, and heading to Lille for lunch (so decadent, so romantic)?

In the same amount of time it take to get from East Dulwich to, well, anywhere (80 mins from the station), you can be at Lille's best gastro secret, La Cave Aux Fioles (book first), an eccentric dining room where menus start at EUR 13.

Once you've washed down your dorade sauce vierge, or filet de boeuf with a bottle of Brouilly (or two), there'll still be time for a potter round the Rue De Gand, a quick beer at the famous Trois Brasseurs (in Gare Flandres) before the 730 train back to St Pancras.