Barcelona

Up and down the Passeig de Sant Joan. Along the carrer de Mallorca as far as the Rambla de Catalunya. My meanders around our neighbourhood and beyond grow longer.

Barcelona is famously a walker's city. But Phase Three in Barcelona means we still have to wear protective masks even if we can at least we can be out and about, working slowly toward a routine closer to what we consider our ordinary schedules.

“Phase Three”! Who would have thought our lives would come to anything like this? But it’s false to think a bad pandemic wasn’t foreseen and warned against. The signs were there in the specialized press, magazines like The Atlantic, not to mention Nature and others such as Virology Journal. They were there when hand washing and wearing protective gloves in supermarkets began to be advised. 

We simply didn’t know when this would happen or how harsh it was going to be.

So, yes, we go out, but we continue to take care….