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Eurostar Trains to be Refurbished by Pininfarina

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Luxury Cars & Autos

With air travel getting more expensive and becoming a bigger hassle all the time, the train has emerged as the preferred mode of transportation throughout Europe. Service between London, Brussels and Paris is carried out by the Eurostar, a high-speed train that carries passengers and vehicles underneath the English channel through the tunnel and out the other side in lightning-fast luxury. The train cars have been in service unchanged since their introduction fifteen years ago, but that's about to change as Italian design house and coachbuilder Pininfarina has been awarded the undoubtedly lucrative contract to refinish them. The company has a well-earned reputation in the automotive industry, having designed the majority of new Ferraris for the past several decades, to say nothing of countless others. The refurbishment process is set to kick off shortly, but the first of the new train cars won't be in service before 2012.

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Europe's Longest Champagne Bar

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining, Luxury Travel & Hotels

If you are in London you might want to make an excuse to go to the St Pancras International train station. It now boasts Europe's longest champagne bar. It measures 96 meters (around 315 feet) and runs beside the Eurostar platforms, separated from the trains by a glass partition. The bar has stools for 110 people and there are almost 70 Champagnes on the menu, with 10 available by the glass. You can enjoy a Champagne breakfast and spend anywhere from £39.95 to £2,700 on a bottle of bubbly. On their opening day they sold the equivalent of 4,500 glasses of champagne.

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Tags: champagne, eurostar, st pancras international, StPancrasInternational, train station