St Pancras International isn't a railway station that's featured in my travels. Until this last week, that is, when I've had cause to use it twice. My new job involves a bit of travelling with meetings in and around London on the agenda. The station for trains to and from "up north", where I live, and the one I always associate with London, is Kings Cross, which is OK but nothing special. St Pancras is very close by and, as I'd learned about its transformation courtesy of the Magpie Files, I was curious to have a look round. And I wasn't disappointed. I started off with a quick tour taking in the clock (I do love clocks),

then the impressive bronze "The Meeting Place"
followed by Martin Jennings' sculpture of poet Sir John Betjeman
Of course there are trains, lots of them, for travel within the UK and beyond. But there are also plenty of eating places and, surprisingly, lovely little shops with lots more to come later in the year. I had time to kill before one meeting so treated myself to breakfast of organic porridge with apple and honey at Peyton and Byrne
and ogled their cupcakes (I do need to perfect my piping. These look gorgeous)).
I popped into Neal's Yard Remedies (I like their Frankincense moisturiser and I bought baby stuff to go into a New Mummy gift basket I'm putting together for a friend who's expecting baby number 1 any day)
but resisted buying flowers as I'd probably have arrived home with a bunch of stalks.
Alas, it was far too early in the day for a visit to the champagne bar. Maybe next time.