Reporting from San Sebastian and the nearby areas as society navigates through lockdown and the pandemic.
1.Stay up late following your husband on FlightAware as he travels from Miami to Madrid. Imagine him on a half-full Iberia jumbo jet drinking red wine, easing into chat in his native tongue, dozing off to the quiet sounds of Spanish […]
On the train to Madrid today, I wondered: Can I still post on Dispatches from Donosti if I am no longer in Donosti, in fact, not even in Spain, or even Europe? Heading out on a trip that will take […]
Then, after many months of confinement, the world started to slowly move once again. At first reticently, fear reigned. We found it hard to remember what life had been like before. Had we really taken that holiday at the beginning […]
OK, I did promise to write about the bad back in pre-history (1980) San Sebastian when I first came ashore. Fair cop. I also said that there was a lot. (Before I get trolled, Part I deals with the good) […]
I know, I know, this is SUCH a trivial problem it seems insensitive to blog about it. The pandemic is killing thousands of people a day, wreaking economic havoc around the world, and I’m bitching about this. On the other […]
For a start, when I arrived waaaaay back in 1980 it wasn’t referred to by most people as Donosti(a), but rather San Sebastian. And San Sebastian was unlike anywhere else that I had lived until then – basically the UK, […]
You’re not going to like this suggestion, but I’m going to say it anyway. Try switching off your mobile and disconnecting your computer for 24 hours. “Impossible!” I hear you say, but I assure you that it is possible and […]
Throughout this pandemic and confinement, I’ve been waking up to bad news pretty much every day. Usually it has to do with death, disease, U.S. government incompetency, or some other coronavirus-related nightmare. The thing is, I receive these horror shows […]
Confinement provokes very different feelings depending on the circumstances. Deprived of freedom and basic provisions causes people to react in surprisingly diverse, and not always positive, ways. In our lifetime lots of us may have already experienced some kind of […]
We know that Gabriella Ranelli is the chef de résistance and has been so way before the era of COVID. Her sourdough experience was an enthralling one indeed, perhaps the most exciting and hair-raising account I’ve read for at least […]
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