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Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder and it's Wednesday the 25th of January and I am on a Euro star train.

Let me tell you where I am exactly. I'm in seat 14.5 of coach number four. Now that's not what it says on my ticket.

I came and sat here because it's a lovely four of seats, so two-facing to the table,

which makes it possible for me to do the recording.

And I also came here because I'm on my way back from Brussels, having learnt a staggering amount about Eurostar's practices since the beginning of Brexit.

So, when the UK left the European Union, and it really didn't start until 1st of January

2021, and then nobody really noticed because of COVID, what we decided to do was to say we'd like to be third country

nationals and therefore we'd like our passports checked please. And instead of what was happening

before, which was very straightforwardly, all the EU frontier official or the French frontier

official could do was check that it was your passport and check that it was a valid

document and now they have to stamp it they have to in a perfect world question

you about what your plans are and all sorts of other things. This takes much longer than the previous transaction.

Therefore, the throughput at London St. Frankras International as well actually as

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