As well as being famous for brewing everyone’s favourite Belgian beer, Leuven is also an amazing historical university town - home to the Lemmens Institute, summer rock music festival Markrock and many sights including the Town Hall, churches, monasteries and abbeys.

While visiting Leuven, you can enjoy the beverages at the Domus brewery (the only brewery in the Benelux that produces its own beer on location), or enjoy Zoet Water Park for free between July and August (located 4 miles south of the town).

Eurostar services from St Pancras International to the medieval Leuven are routed via Brussels and comprise a connecting Belgian train. Journey times to Leuven is under 3 hours and 30 minutes.

While the official Leuven tourist website is currently unavailable to English speakers, in the meantime you can find out more about short breaks to Leuven via our site.

Stella Artois, Magic Eye Image

(stare at the beer bottles long enough and watch them come alive - cheers)

Intriguing twitter find…The Station Sessions

Posted 7 hours ago:
“The Station Sessions, Live from St. Pancras International - Every Thursday 6.30pm - 7.30pm…Juan Zelada and the Momeraths this week!”

Posted 10:43, July 6th:
“Do you want to get invovled in the Station Sessions? Are you a new musician? Want to be part of the team? Email: gideon@syllabusmusic.com”

The Station Sessions, St Pancras

Check out Syllabus Music for more details. Further news on the Station Sessions can also be found on NME and in more detail here with a BBC News video here.

While scouring the web for the an alternative or quirky Eurostar train image, I happened upon this cute picture courtesy of Flickr user, drinksmachine. Entitled ‘Thomas Takes on Eurostar‘, the picture was taken from a Eurostar exhibit at the National Railway Museum, York.

Thomas the Tank Engine Meets Eurostar

And so commences a series of posts tracking the very best (and worst) instances of Eurostar images found on the internet. Look out for our favourite Eurostar snaps on this blog.