This is a long holiday weekend here in Spain. Today (Monday) is day of The Constitution and Wednesday is also a public holiday for the Immaculate Conception. Seeing as Tuesday is sat in the middle of the two holidays everybody takes that day off too, known as a bridging day. Lots of people go away for this five day break, so on Friday after work the roads around the country were very busy. E.T.A. (the Basque separatist group) chose Friday evening to detonate five bombs in petrol stations around Madrid. Thankfully nobody was hurt, they gave a half hour warning of where the bombs were planted. It was basically a reminder to the Government of what they were capable of.

I was listening to the radio earlier today when there was a news flash. E.T.A. had planted another seven bombs in separate cities, all timed to go off at 1.30 pm. As the minutes ticked away my stomach turned. I just kept hoping that they’d given the authorities more than the ten minutes we knew about to clear the areas where the bombs were. Ten minutes.

One thirty finally came and went, and all I could do was wait to hear what had happened.

Bit by bit news came in, as each bomb exploded. Again, thankfully they weren’t big bombs and from what I can gather at the moment nobody was killed.

What on earth is going through the minds of these bastards?