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Category: COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown

Seeing the light at the end of the lockdown tunnel

11th April 2020 Barry S. Leave a comment

“In four weeks, I haven’t gone much farther than 1 kilometre from my home – and that was only for shopping, or to go to the pharmacy – now we’re facing another three weeks of the same.”

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Posted in: COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown, Sardinia - Personal thoughts Filed under: Covid-19, Italy, Sardinia

Italian Lockdown – Three weeks, and still far from over.

30th March 2020 Barry S. Leave a comment

“Closer to home, in my town of Decimomannu, with a population of 8,000 people, we have received news of our first confirmed case of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.”

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Posted in: COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown Filed under: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Italy, Sardinia

Life during COVID-19 lockdown – Making the most of time

23rd March 2020 Barry S. 4 Comments

“Sometimes it’s just necessary to spend time with the people you love, being silly … allow yourself to disconnect from the bad for a moment.”

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Day 11: Finding the positives of a testing situation amid Italian lockdown

20th March 2020 Barry S. 4 Comments

“Given the uncertainty of how long this lockdown will continue, we have both realised that taking things day by day seems to be the easiest way to handle things.”

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Day 10: Schools, education, and the Italian COVID-19 lockdown

19th March 2020 Barry S. Leave a comment

“I think that high schools are quite slow in the process of organising lessons online … they were not prepared at all.”

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Day 9: Gradually coming to terms with life under the Italian lockdown

18th March 2020 Barry S. 4 Comments

‘In my town, and in towns all over Italy, there are cars equipped with megaphones driving around the streets, repeating the same message over and over, “Stay at home”.’

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DAY 8: Saint Patrick’s Day during Italian COVID-19 lockdown

17th March 2020 Barry S. 2 Comments

“The evening news is showing videos of people singing and playing music from their balconies. We know we are in lockdown, but we know we’re not alone.”

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DAY 6 & 7: The COVID-19 Italian lockdown is taking its emotional toll

16th March 2020 Barry S. 2 Comments

“Since my previous post on Saturday, the number of confirmed positive cases of the COVID-19 Coronavirus in Sardinia has jumped to 84. This is an increase of 39 cases in two days.”

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DAY 5: Normalising life for a child during the COVID-19 lockdown

14th March 2020 Barry S. Leave a comment

“So how do you explain the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic to a five-year-old?”

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DAY 4: ‘My wife and I are trying to structure our days as much as possible’

13th March 2020 Barry S. Leave a comment

“At home, it felt like a holiday initially, but the novelty quickly wore off as we realised the seriousness of the situation.”

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Sorgente Su Gologone - Oliena, Sardinia 📌 . Nes Sorgente Su Gologone - Oliena, Sardinia 📌
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Nestled at the foothills of the Supramonte mountain range, in the province of Nuoro, is the most important natural spring of Sardinia.
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The spring, 'Sorgente Su Gologone' consists of  a natural pool with a depth of well over 135 metres, only reaching the surface through a crack in the surrounding limestone rock.
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The deep water is renowned for its crystal clarity, and depending on the sunlight, can range in colour from emerald green to turquoise and intense blue.
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The spring is the starting point for a short mountain river that then flows into the Cedrino river.
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The stunning scenery is completed by a forest of eucalyptus trees, where you can enjoy a quiet picnic.
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The only way to reach the famous Neptune Caves by foot, the 'Escala del Cabirol', or 'Goat Steps' if translated literally from Algherese, are 654 steps that wind down the Capo Caccia cliff face to the cave's entrance at sea level below.
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Fortificazioni di Monte Doglia - Alghero, Sardinia Fortificazioni di Monte Doglia - Alghero, Sardinia 📌
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Tucked away on a small country path on the hills of Monte Doglia, just outside the town of Alghero, you'll find the amazing, but not very well known, Monte Doglia Fortifications - an abandoned military complex dating back to the 1930s.
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Built originally to protect Alghero airport, the complex comprises of a large barracks, anti-aircraft artillery platforms, and numerous tunnels previously used to store weapons, ammunitions, and supplies.
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Hidden in the mountains all around Alghero, you can find many types of abandoned WW2 military fortifications, such as globular pillboxes, artillery spotters, ammunition depots, and barracks.
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Perched by the side of the road just outside the town of Castelsardo, the Roccia dell'Elefante, or Elephant Rock, is a large boulder of trachyte and andesite eroded by the elements over thousands of years, eventually giving it the unmistakeable shape of an elephant.
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Monteleone Rocca Doria, Sardinia 📌 . An enchant Monteleone Rocca Doria, Sardinia 📌
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An enchanting landscape provides the setting for Monteleone Rocca Doria, a tiny village in the northern Logudoro, an area once called Nurcara, just 40 km from both Alghero and Sassari.
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Built on a limestone outcrop, surrounded on three sides by a lake, the town is a natural fortress.
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The town's castle, built by the Genovese Doria family in the 10th century, was completely destroyed following a bloody battle with Spanish Aragonese invaders in the 13th century.
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Monte Baranta, Olmedo - Sardinia 📌 . Dating to Monte Baranta, Olmedo - Sardinia 📌
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Dating to around 2500 BC, this impressive structure - an impenetrable 3 metre thick, 100 metre long stone wall - once protected a pre-nuragic civilisation at the top of a mountain in Sardinia's northwest Nurra region.
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