"The Saturday especially, it did feel this could get a lot worse and there were a lot of bombs going off. It was quite traumatic from that point of view. If that meant we had to go and get a coach and sit in the coach for 13 hours then we would have done it."
"Lindsay said they had not known if it would be one week, two weeks or three weeks to get home. Paul said it had been a big relief when the airline offered them passage. He said the flight took a route down along Saudi Arabia, before crossing over Israel."
"We had one of those massive alarms that comes through on the phone, which scares the living daylights out of you. That was like stay away from the windows, stay indoors. We were basically told we weren't allowed outside the hotel."
Lindsay, a stage three cancer patient, was trapped in Dubai with her family during escalating regional tensions. They witnessed a drone being intercepted above their hotel on Saturday, causing explosions they described as terrifying. Desperate to return home for vital treatment at Derriford Hospital, the family considered extreme measures including a 13-hour coach journey. Virgin Atlantic offered them a flight on Wednesday that routed through Saudi Arabia and Israel. Paul described Saturday as the worst day, with multiple explosions and emergency alerts instructing residents to avoid windows and stay indoors. The family ultimately secured passage home, which Paul characterized as a significant relief.
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