I’m currently on board @LeShuttle on my first trip back from the UK to Brussels in 15 months. As some followers may know, this is my normal weekly commute, or was until March 2020. Short thread of impressions here for anyone who is interested. 1/ 
The M20 is miraculously roadwork-free for the first time in many years. It was a much quicker trip to the tunnel than usual. 2/
The tunnel terminal itself is a sad echo of bustling pre-pandemic pre-brexit times - a ghost town haunted by screeching gulls. There’s barely a soul here. I guess that’s to be expected. 3/
I was dreading new layers of checks and bureaucracy but frankly the processing has taken no longer than usual. Perhaps down to so few travellers. Very quick transit through check-in, UK passport control, security, & French passport control. 4/
The only major change I’ve noticed is that the French are now stamping UK passports. I’ll run out of passport pages quickly at this rate. Not sure if they also stamp EU passports, I’m travelling on my UK one today. 5/
More once I’m back in the EUSSR, don’t know how lucky we are, back in the back in the 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 6/
I wasn’t sure whether to expect new additional customs checks on disembarking the Shuttle but no it’s straight off and onto the autoroute as in the past. Very smooth crossing. Will report back in 2 weeks whether the environment is more hostile in the other direction. 7/
I was also half expecting temporary emergency checks on the FR-BE border (as happened eg after the Bataclan attack) but no, the usual invisible boundary but for a change in road surface. 8/8
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