It is clearly an added incentive for convivial fraternisation all those feet under the Channel.
But in Britain there's only one option so it's under the Channel we go, to Brussels.
Later, as the train rushes under the Channel, Tom floats an idea.
Featherstone said it had taken "months of gentle negotiation" to obtain permission to film the grisly scenes under the Channel.
The tunnel stretches 50 kilometers, or 31 miles, over all, of which 38 kilometers reach under the channel.
Since the first train ran under the channel in 1994, Eurotunnel, based in Paris, has been plagued by financial problems.
"The Eurostars, which connect London with Paris and Brussels under the Channel, are arguably the premier business trains in Europe," said Mr. Morel of Rail Europe.
That should please UK holidaymakers heading over (or under) the Channel – and also cheer the European Central Bank, as a weaker euro should deliver some much-needed inflation.
Once in the narrow tunnels, they apparently hope to stow away on the rail cars for the 32-mile trip under the channel.
From Breaky Bottom out through Beachy Head, under the Channel, and up into Picardy, and on past Arras and Amiens, the chalk is continuous to Reims and Épernay.
