Isolation Diary: Day Thirteen in Spain Lockdown

April 3, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

““We should make a fort”, I said. Of course, this set Alex off on wanting to make an elaborate fort.”

Isolation Diary: Day Twelve in Spain Lockdown

April 2, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

“I went outside today. Like outside, outside. I WENT OUTSIDE.”

Isolation Diary: Day Eleven in Spain Lockdown

April 1, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

“It makes me wonder if life will be the same for a long time yet.”

Isolation Diary: Day Ten in Spain Lockdown

March 31, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

“Rio was crying for his lead before Alex went out, so Alex took him out. He said he pulled and pulled and cried until he got to the car.”

Isolation Diary: Day Nine in Spain Lockdown

March 30, 2020.Reading time 13 minutes.

“It was a beautiful sunrise. One that promised it was going to be an even more beautiful day. A Sunday. A warm, sunny Sunday. The perfect adventure day. But today wasn’t going to be any kind of adventure. Unless you count moving between Costa de la Living Room and Balcony de Sur and El baño as an adventure.”

Isolation Diary: Day Eight in Spain Lockdown

March 29, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

“It’s been a weird type of weather today. Total blue skies, not a cloud, except it rained. Like totally vertical rain, not hard or heavy, but enough that it would annoy you if you were out. How this rain came to be, I don’t know. It was almost like a don’t worry that you can’t go out, it’s raining anyway.”

Isolation Diary: Day Seven in Spain Lockdown

March 28, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

“They say your clothes are an expression of who you are, well, if someone was to see me now they’d see the same pyjamas and Adidas leggings going around in a cycle I’m not sure what it would decipher about me”

Isolation Diary: Day Six in Spain Lockdown

March 27, 2020.Reading time 14 minutes.

“It’s just a case of holding on another day, until the brighter day comes when this is all over. And it will be over. We just have to hold on, look out for one another and ride the storm.”

Isolation Diary: Day Five in Spain’s Lockdown

March 26, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

“It’s not about being locked down. Or about being trapped in your home. It’s about keeping you safe.”

Isolation Diary: Day Four in Spain’s Lockdown

March 25, 2020.Reading time 13 minutes.

Knowing that I can’t go out makes it much easier than thinking about how we could be drinking wine by the sea, or eating tapas or exploring. In the rain, we wouldn’t be doing that anyway.