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WE’VE trawled through the TD Window Seat archives to give you a blast from the past. Here’s some gems from 03 Sep 2014:

NoboDY really likes returning to work after a holiday, but what if you couldn’t return to work due to a fear of flying?

That’s what happened to a poor young woman from the UK who was celebrating her engagement, whisked away for an impromptu holiday in exotic Tunisia in northern Africa.

The lady was a very nervous flyer and suffered a panic attack during the journey from the UK to Tunis, the UK Daily Mail said.

At the end of the trip, her anxiety became so bad she was passing out at the thought of even going to the airport, with her partner repeatedly cancelling their flights home.

The panic episodes went on for weeks, with the hotel charging an additional £104 per night to extend the stay, a lot more than the £1,600 total cost for their entire original holiday.

The woman’s partner even flew her mother to the resort to try to calm her down, and eventually she agreed to board a ferry to Marseille, France.

From there, the couple caught a train to Paris before boarding the Eurostar home.

All up, the extended “holiday” cost the couple more than £5,000 in extra accommodation, forfeited airfares, transfers and medical bills from Tunisian doctors.