After ten weeks of lockdown
anything else seems very strange.
Every day is pretty much the
same, and it has become very difficult to remember which day of the week it
is. Gone are our weekly U3A group walks
on Monday and Thursday. Plus our weekly
visit to Calpe for our “people fix” of walking along the promenade, coffee and
bacon boccie and ending with the weeks shopping. The only things that remains is our regular
house clean each Sunday.
At least the weather has improved,
as we approach the end of May the temperature rises and working or walking
outside the house becomes quite difficult.
This is why group walking on the Costa Blanca stops at the end of May
for the summer break until start of October.
Jan hurt her back on Thursday,
which put a stop to our daily walks. We
did manage a very pleasant three hour walk on Monday (see photo above) and our
shorter daily hour walks. But we had to
cancel our second recce for this week.
She is getting better and we managed our daily walk today.
On Thursday it became a legal
requirement to wear a face mask in all public places, whenever it was not
possible to maintain the two metre distance form another person. This was also the first day that we drove to
Benissa for our weekly shop, both of us can travel together in the car
now. But we were surprised to see so
many people walking in Jalon and Benissa without any sign of a facemask, let
alone wearing one. We didn’t have to
wear them in the car, but Jan did to go into the shop.
It would be easy to think that
everything is returning to normal again, particularly in our sleepy little
village. It has never been very busy,
and is no different now. Except when
you go in the shop of course. And it is
now possible to visit bars and get takeaways from most restaurants. It is also possible to meet in groups of up
to 10.
But the virus is still out
there, and it is still doing an immense amount of damage. The daily stats are improving, but yesterday
here were 344 new infections and 48 deaths in Spain. These figures are low compared with even a
week ago, but they are still frightening.
Particularly if you are in one of the “at risk” groups, which we both are.
So we have not visited a bar,
and have no intention of doing so at present.
It would be lovely to feel confident and comfortable enough to be able
to return to our old routine. But I
suspect I am not alone in feeling that it will be some considerable time yet
before that actually happens.
This week’s Lockdown Video
features two walks from January. I have
mixed feelings about the project. It is
a lovely reminder of happy times, but it also makes us realise how much we miss
our many friends and our weekly walks.
Hopefully it will not be too long before we can meet again to make more
happy memories. You can find the video
here
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