Tag: madrid

  • Airport security is a joke

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    Tom Raftery
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    Not that we haven’t known that for some time but it was recently drilled home to me on my flight back from Madrid last week. My son Enrique has asthma. He got quite bad with it earlier this year when we were in Spain and a Spanish doctor prescribed a cough suppressant called Expectu to…

  • I am such an idiot!

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    Tom Raftery
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    We were flying to Madrid this morning. Everything was set. Bags were packed. Ticket printed. Accommodation arranged. The lot. My wife lived in Madrid for six years so we have friends here who we had arranged to met up with. Needless to say we were looking forward to the weekend for a long time. We…