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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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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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Autumn rains bring the colour back to Sardinia... Autumn rains bring the colour back to Sardinia...
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