Reporting from San Sebastian and the nearby areas as society navigates through lockdown and the pandemic.
A few days ago, I received a message from a friend in Maryland who works for the county government. “Does lockdown work?” She asked, knowing I was in Spain, where we went into lockdown just over three weeks ago. Constituents […]
Many, many years ago, before you were born, in the year 2020 the world stood still. Very still, for months on end. You see, there was a virus, a terrible virus, it started in China and then spread throughout the […]
The title of this page may seem oxymoronic–and maybe it is– both oxymoronic AND moronic. Before I go any further, I want to be clear–in no way is this focus on humor meant to distract from the very real problems […]
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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