Well, yesterday was eventful. I think it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve\nseen Mum shaking. We got off to an early start, which as things turned out was\njust as well. We were at the Pet Check In by just after 8am French time. That was\nwhen it all started to go wrong. You will of course be pleased to know that my\nmicrochip was fine and I didn\u2019t have the problem Shadow had eight years ago.\nMine was just a question of the vet not having stamped my passport. She had\nwritten in that I\u2019d had my worming and correctly time and dated the entry, but\nshe\u2019d forgotten to use their official stamp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As soon as the woman at check in said to Mum there was a\nproblem she simply started shaking. Thankfully her brain was still working it\nwas only her body which went into shock. The people were lovely and said this\nproblem wasn\u2019t going to mean we couldn\u2019t travel. It simply meant we had to go\nto see the vet in Calais to sort it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, if you\u2019ve read this blog for a long time, you will know\nthat the vet in Calais 8 years ago was a dreadful man and Mum walking out with Shadow\nand drove all the way back to Switzerland. It meant she was dreading taking me.\nHowever, she needn\u2019t have worried. The surgery had moved to a new modern\nbuilding with parking. There was a lovely vet who was there and apparently we\nwere only lucky to catch him as he\u2019d just dealt with an emergency and would not\nnormally have been there at 8am on a Sunday morning. He sorted it all out and\nwe checked in again at just after 8.30am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once we got to England Mum already felt exhausted. We met our\nfirst road closure within a mile of leaving the Channel Tunnel and had to drive\nback towards the coast and go a long way round. Firstly we met a cycle race, so\nthey probably didn\u2019t appreciate the traffic. Then we found that road was closed\ntoo and we got diverted again. We\u2019d only done about twenty miles by then. The\nthird problem was showing as some way ahead of us, but we got taken a different,\nslower, was to avoid it. We\u2019d both had enough by then. By the time we\neventually got home we both said we didn\u2019t want to see the car again for a long\ntime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Being a travelling dog is not always as glamorous as it\nsounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"