As from last Saturday, it’s now mandatory for us to wear masks at all times, even when we can socially distance. Even in the countryside (that was specifically mentioned in the notification). But not when exercising. It’s quite busy early…
I’ve just come in from playing ball with Daisy. She loves playing ball – not just a little bit love, a LOT love! She would actually opt to just look at her ball rather than eat her food, and playing…
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…
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…
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…