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I decided I should cook my first Paella Valenciana before my first trip to Valencia next week. I wanted to have a clue about the cooking process before I order a paella in the city that invented it. Even though paella is from Valencia, Catalonia has adopted it. I don’t think that’s just because touristsContinue reading “18 October 2020 – Sunday – #117”

With so few tourists around, film crews are taking advantage of Barcelona’s quiet streets for exterior shots. Brad caught a crew shooting in the Born district. I post this to assure friends and family that, in spite of reports that Spain’s second wave of Covid-19 is the worst in Europe, Barcelona is not a seethingContinue reading “11 October 2020 – Sunday – #116”

Last weekend two things Covid happened. One is that a friend in Barcelona, whom I’ll refer to as C., got sick with Covid-19. The other is that the White House hosted a Covid-19 superspreader event to honor the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. When C. told me last weekend he didn’tContinue reading “4 October 2020 – Sunday – #115”