Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
- Christopher Howse: 'A Pilgrim in Spain*
Life in Spain in the Time of Something Like Cholera
- Today is the first day of Phase 1of our Great Relaxation here in Galicia, which means I'm allowed - twice a day - to leave the house and to try to get a coffee or a drink. And to go, I hope, to the Post Office to collect a 'large letter'. That's assuming I stay in the province of Pontevedra.
- Some bits of Spain - even in the same region - will remain in Phase 0. This might help you understand what's going on, though it's easy to get confused. People in Valencia are not at all happy with their patchwork of relaxations and non-relaxations.
- María's Chronicle Day 57. Different province problems.
- My sister has booked Easyjet flights back to the UK from Oporto on 19th and 26th of this month. Yesterday, the 'fully booked' flight of the 17th was cancelled. As flights have been progressively cancelled a week before the date scheduled she awaits tomorrow's news with trepidation.
- Assuming one of her flights isn't cancelled, we then face the challenge of getting her to the airport, as there's no buses or trains to it from Spain and I'm only allowed to drive her to the border, not to cross it into Portugal. Anyone in Portugal with a car want to earn a decent 'taxi' fare? Preferably in Valença
- Talking of the Valencia region . . .Just a reminder that the charming video cited here is up and running again. It reminded me that it rained most of the time my sister and I were 2 weeks in this 'sunny' bit of Spain.
- The optimistic(?) Minister of Tourism suggests that domestic holiday resorts will be 'fully open' by July but foreign tourists aren't expect to darken our shores until October, at the earliest. We will see.
- Future historians of last week may focus on a seemingly obscure decision made in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. Germany’s top court, quietly but with resolve, finally squared up to the European Union’s Brussels-based technocracy. The constitutional court ruled that, by purchasing more than €2.2 trillion (£1.8 trillion) of government bonds since 2015, the European Central Bank has “manifestly” flouted EU treaty. This marks an astonishing and potentially explosive reassertion of German sovereignty – at a time when European “solidarity” is already frayed. This is no routine EU skirmish or political potshot. For the first time since the European Economic Community was founded in 1957, a member state has legally asserted European bodies have overreached.
The USA
- Mother's Day greetings from Fart.
- Has everyone been astonished by this example of halographic projection?
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