This morning I really wanted to dispatch some good news. Because as of yesterday, the number of new cases in Spain seemed to be leveling off. This would indicate that just past two weeks into lockdown, we were approaching the […]
My mother-in-law has not left her home since Friday the 13th (no joke). Paying close attention to the news throughout early March, she decided to self-isolate in her apartment a few days before lockdown. Weeks ago she and my son […]
Suddenly, all that good cheer from last week seems to have evaporated on this manic Monday. The Autonomous regions, always looking to pick a fight with Madrid, are claiming that because the Central Government insisted on distributing incoming supplies themselves, […]
This morning I left the house with the intention of trying to mail a letter. Even in normal times in Spain, this is not the easiest of tasks. First, you have to find the post office, of which there seem […]
Today, Spain went into lockdown. Sort of. We woke up to a gorgeous blue sky, rare around these parts–San Sebastian is in the humid north where it rains a lot, and I mean A LOT. In a state of disbelief, […]
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