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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
My 93-year-old mother sent me these pictures the other day. Apparently, they’ve been circulating lately in cyberspace. A while ago she begged me to read and edit her autobiography, which includes excerpts from her own mother’s diary. Seeing these pics […]
So I am in lockdown with a teenager. You should have a little bit of background history here. She is almost 16, but I have been separated from her father for most of her life. She lives with me, rushing […]
One of the jobs I had written on my long list of things to do during the lockdown was to sort through my bookshelves and try to put my books in some kind of alphabetical order. Nearly a month later […]
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