Lockdown Life – New Lockdowns

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…

Lockdown Life – The New Normal

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…

Lockdown Life – Phase 3.5

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…

Don’t Worry, Be Happy & 20 years!

If the video doesn’t work, this a direct link  We’ve been teaching Ludvig ‘Don’t worry, be happy’ complete with the whistling. As we don’t know all th words, there’s quite a lot of ‘doo doo be doo be doo’ going…

Lockdown Life – Phase 3

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,…

Lockdown Life – We leave the village

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…

Lockdown Life – Masks

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…

Lockdown Life – Phase 2

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…