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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…

We have entered phase two of the delockdowning. From our point of view, I don’t think we’ll be affected much. The big one for us was being able to go out – and then being able to go out in…

Today we enter Phase One of the delockdowning. The big changes are more than one person from the same household can go in a car and there can be meetings of up to 10 people in a home. Outdoor areas…

The lockdown (which is a phrase that I really don’t like as it sounds punitive, I prefer quarantine) is starting to be lifted gradually and next week we start on Phase 0. Prior to this, the measures have been lifted…