Aoife Carr: ‘Madrid was like the zombie apocalypse during Spain power outage and Ryanair experience was appalling’

I was buying presents for my girls on Monday in a shop on one of Madrid’s busiest squares when all the shops went dark. As we stood in Sephora in Puerta del Sol, we thought initially it was just in that square as builders are working on it, but as we started walking we saw all the Metros had stopped..