Hamburg and Belgium day eleven & twelve CrosiEurope Cruise

Nine o’clock and our coach was waiting to take us to Halle which is where our cruise should have ended if it hadn’t been for the terrible accident at  La Louvière where a motorway bridge collapsed on a boat. At Halle 5 of us left the bus and caught the train to Brussels Midi, the Eurostar terminal. The rest stayed on the coach to Brussels and we bumped into some of them at the station. As our Eurostar train didn’t leave until the afternoon I enquired about transferring to an earlier one, no problem, just an extra £230, so we went for a walk and a few coffees followed by a lovely Mussel lunch. The clouds reflecting in the glass clad buildings had to be photographed. Needless to say like most of the other trains this week, Eurostar was also late getting in from Holland

Back in London we made our way to the Buckingham Palace Best Western Hotel where we had a room for the night. A lovely place in every respect except one. Our room backed onto the railway line. That evening we ate at one of our favourite restaurants in the area,Cyprus Mangal. Due to the road works the road running in front of the restaurant is closed so they have set their tables out all over it. Great for the warm weather. We felt we were still on holiday.

Next day after a very disturbed night after breakfast we checked out leaving our bags and visited Buckingham Palace, with all the thousands of tourists and took a 

walk through St James's Park before catching our coach home and guess what, it was an hour late leaving Victoria. In 12 days we had just two trains on time.

Here is a map of our cruse.
The red is what we did, the green what we couldn’t do and black is train travel