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Evacuation insurance I believe comes into play after the fact-you have to evacuate and then get reimbursement. Medjet will pick you (and a companion) up and take you to a hospital of choice in one of their jets.
We don't use trip cancellation insurance but we do have medical insurance as well as a membership to Medjet for evacuation. Minor medical issues can be cared for in Spain, but I would rather be evacuated to a hospital of my choice in the US for...
My son has asthma that is triggered every autumn- he coughs constantly for about a month and sometimes very hard. Like you when he is in bed and resting the coughing does decrease. His pulmonologist told us that we don't cough in our sleep- this...
I agree with J Wilhaus. We have often taken a flight from DC that arrives at about 6AM. Sometimes we have been at our hotel in Madrid to sleep by 8AM, but the last time our flight arrived with eight other flights and there was no one in...
A limited amount of meat is all you are going to get in the average Menu Peregrino! Limited vegetables too, apart from the inevitable insalada mixta. Nonetheless carrying a juicer is, IMO, overkill to the point of derangement. (Offered with the...
My husband's sister taught Italian at a university and spoke Sicilian as well. When my son was in middle school he wrote a term paper and asked her whether to use panino or panini. She told him that while panino was correct in the context in...
Can you imagine how boring the average Camino forum would be if everybody who walked a Camino and didn't have a dog encounter reported it. 500,000 posts headlined "I walked a Camino and didn't get bitten by a dog".
Oh, and a search for "dog +...
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