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I’ve been craving homegrown tomatoes for years. When Brad and I rented Casa Solar at the end January, I finally had the perfect terrace to grow tomatoes. With all the rigmarole of moving in and obtaining my Tarjeta de Identidad de Extranjero, though, there was no time to order plants before the lockdown. The firstContinue reading “26 May 2020 – Tuesday – #72”

In Barcelona, it is not Memorial Day, but it is the first full day of Phase 1. In Barcelona’s version of Phase 1, we are free to go outside, but not beyond the city border. No one can enter or leave the city. As Covid-19 deaths in Spain dropped to 48 yesterday, the lowest sinceContinue reading “25 May 2020 – Memorial Day – #71”

It turns out the car horns I heard while I was writing yesterday’s diary entry were from a protest by the Spanish right-wing party Vox. It’s still a mystery how people in Spain find out about these events. Once in a while I’ll get a message that we’re banging pots and pans to protest someContinue reading “24 May 2020 – Sunday – #70”