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Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder. It's Thursday the 5th of September and I have the great joy of being in southern France. It's glorious, beautiful September sunshine and I'm also with Dr. Julia Ferguson, who is here for some time having travelled down here with her beautiful dog

Bonnie.

First of all, Julia, tell us about Bonnie.

She's a mutt.

She's about 18 months old.

She's half schnauzer, half poodle, which some people like to refer to as a schnoodle, which obviously is too

quingeworthy. But, yeah, so she came with me last year on a little trip, and she came with me

again this year. I'm really interested to understand the legal aspects of how you bring

Bonnie to the south of France from Britain

and also a bit about the practicalities.

So what do you have to do?

It's got obviously like so many things to do with travel much more complicated since Brexit.

I know, I know.

The gift that keeps on giving.

So with my previous dog, I was able to get a pet passport,

so I could bring her with impunity,

as long as all her vaccinations and things were up to date in the passport.

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