"Yes, I'm going back to UK, my train was due to leave tomorrow night, but I got a text this afternoon around 2pm that said 'your train is canceled, you have to leave the country now, in fact, if you want to get out, ”says Katharyn, a young British traveler in Brussels.
Like her, some people took a Eurostar ticket in extremis on Sunday to reach London from the Belgian capital before the suspension of travel between the United Kingdom and several countries, including France and Belgium.
For now, France has suspended travel with the United Kingdom for 48 hours.
"My boyfriend works near Oxford and he was supposed to join us for the holidays, but here we are, we learned that a little while ago, so I took the last train possible", confides Emilie, a Belgian who also came to take the Eurostar.
In London, dozens of people also lined up on Sunday evening at Saint Pancras station to access the last Eurostar bound for Brussels.
British authorities have reconfigured part of the country after the discovery of a new strain of Covid-19, suspected of being more contagious.
