Dear Eurostar.co.uk,

Thanks for the smug emails you’ve been sending me for the past few months, informing me that you’re moving your London base from Waterloo to St Pancras, which will cut 20 minutes of the journey time, but frankly I couldn’t give a monkeys.

South London always gets overlooked when it comes to attractions and events, though the south is equally as good as the north. The tube doesn’t cover as much of our territory as in the north, but we manage anyway. Having the Eurostar based at Waterloo was a great boon to us long-suffering south-Londoners. Now you’ve taken that away from us.

So I can honestly say that I wasn’t happy to get your cheerful email telling me that I’m “only 42 minutes from [your] new central London home” with a personalised journey planner from my home to St Pancras. I was about 30 minutes away from Waterloo, so the quicker trip to Paris from the new location won’t make much difference to me.

Now I’m not going to cut off my nose to spite my face and say that I’m going to boycott your services, as I prefer taking the Eurostar over flying to Europe, but I won’t be as happy to use it now. Shame on you. Why couldn’t you have kept a couple of the “slower” services running from Waterloo?

I’m so glad that one of the best scenes of the Bourne Ultimatum was filmed at Waterloo station, my friends told me that they saw Matt Damon in action there, and I felt so chuffed. Here’s the scene, when I was watching it in the cinema I felt like I could have been there, avoiding stray bullets!

Ah, the memories, at least I’ll always remember Waterloo International.

Up yours,

PJ

Written by PJ | Posted in movies

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