So close, just 20kms or 15 minutes by car from Donosti….and yet so far. Iparralde. You won’t find it on any official map but all Basques know what and where it is: The “North Part” of The Basque Country. It […]
A few more drawings of the lovely birds in my terrace… All drawings are coloured pencil and ink. Here is that pigeon I have to start on! (All originals and prints are available through author’s website. She is also happy to […]
As of this last weekend, my mother-in-law has been locked down for one month. Thirty one days, by herself, in her apartment, in a neighborhood called Herrera, on the outer edges of San Sebastian. And while the rest of us, […]
I woke up today, the first day of a five day Easter Holiday, to some very loud Spanish rap from the building behind mine, the news that Bernie Sanders had dropped out of the U.S. presidential race, and a sweep […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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