East Side Story – One week in Hackney

Getaway Magazine | 03.04.2026 16:35
By 6:30 am in Amsterdam, it seemed I may not make it onto the train back to London, stuck in a backlog of anxious travellers, at the whim of the ambivalent early morning contingent of border security staff. Thankfully, a scramble as the Eurostar rolled into Amsterdam Centraal station spat me out into a window seat, where I dozed off immediately, and woke up to the excited late-morning frenzy of St Pancras International station.