Nathan Midgley

The Dulle Griet bar in Ghent takes one of your shoes as a deposit when you order a large Kwak - the glass it comes in is spectacular, and they don't want you escaping with it.

For extra security, your shoe gets placed in a basket and winched up to the ceiling.

We were down at Eurostar's old home on the night the last train left. With the operator so established at St Pancras now, it's strange to think that it was at Waterloo for over a decade.

A striking picture of a skinhead peeing into a teacup was used to promote travel to the UK in Belgium. I saw it while passing through Brussels, and the Telegraph spotted it too.

Remember all the press interest in St Pancras's self-cleaning glass? These guys fitted it.

In 2000 I went to visit my then girlfriend in Dijon. This song came on my headphones as the train started to pull out of Waterloo. The two went together perfectly - it was like being in my own music video.

Give it a listen on Last.fm...