Kate Pullen

New lockdowns are now in place in Cataluña and Galicia. This is where new outbreaks have been identified.  The lockdowns now are mandated by the local governments, so they happen really quickly. People were only given a matter of hours…

All the restrictions in Extremadura which are going to be lifted have been lifted and things are pretty much now how they will be in the immediate future.  We can now travel anywhere in Spain, and bars and terraces are…

Today we enter the second part of Phase 3. Until now, travel outside of our community (Badajoz) has been prohibited. However, as from today, we can go to anywhere in Extremadura – which means we can go to the northern…

So this week we enter Phase 3 of the lockdown deescalation. As we had thought, there’s little here which will really affect us on a day to day level as this is more about lifting the restrictions on businesses. Cinemas,…

Yesterday, for the first time in nearly three months we left the village to go to the vet in Zafra. While we’ve been out to the two pines (the other side of the railway track) to pick asparagus, we haven’t…

Spain will be starting a 10 day period of mourning for people who have died during the virus pandemic. Flags will be at half-mast and people are decorating their balconies with black ribbons. However what has really set the cat…

Yesterday we started phase 2. We will stay in phase 2 for two weeks. I think all the principalities that moved to phase 1 have moved on, with the exception of Valencia which saw an uptick of cases and moved…

Well, it transpires we’re still on Phase One – I must admit that the two weeks did feel as though they had gone quickly! It’s next week we move on to the new phase. It’s also mandatory from today to…