Eurostar to provide wifi on trains

Eurostar is to provide wifi internet access on its trains in 2012.

Simon Calder - The Independent's Travel Editor and the man with an encyclopedia knowledge of the travel and tourism industry (who has surely done as much for the Brompton bike as Stephen Fry has done for twitter) - revealed this in a twitter exchange with greentraveller while hosting an hour-long Q&A session for Eurostar yesterday.

To see the full twitter exchanges, see @EurostarUK, @greentraveller and hashtag #treadlightly.