When the first full-speed Eurostars set off from their new London home at St Pancras two weeks ago, there was much hullabaloo about the new two-hour, 15-minute journey time to Paris. The even shorter hop to Brussels was overlooked in the excitement - but not by all.
  
Increasing numbers of canny Brits have quietly realised that the new golden age of fast train travel has brought the Belgian capital closer to London than such commuter stalwarts as Poole, Cheltenham and York. Sleek, modern trains will whisk passengers between the two capitals in just one hour 51 minutes, making Brussels suddenly a whole new lifestyle option.

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