Chapter 2- Spain in quarantine - local stories.
Madrid
My uncles, live in Madrid, where they raised their two sons , and later the sons moved to Miami, married and started their own families. And now life is divided between Family in Israel , the life my uncles have in Madrid, Spain and the worry for their children and grandchildren in Miami, USA.
They are a true International Family!
Lucky for us and the luck of the family from Spain, we celebrated with them about a month ago the wedding of , the youngest son of my uncles, with the bride, Dana.
(What a wonderful name!)
Just a month ago in mid-February!
The wedding was held in great honor with guests from all over the world, and two weeks after we had already returned to Israel, all the mess with the Corona started here and a week after that in Spain too!
(So-called heavenly supervision for the bride and groom o, since everyone has recently been quarantined in Spain,mu uncles try to keep a high morale , even though they are closed at home, and spend time like everyone else playing card games, watching TV, communicating with children and talking on What’s Up and Zoom video with their grandchildren.
The isolation in Spain began about two weeks ago and there is a chance that the government will now continue with the isolation even after the first 15 days of emergence, as the report shows that 394 people died from the virus in one day and over 3,000 have been infected. The government is asking the people to keep the rules and closure with a lot of patient!
Barcelona
And last but not least, from closed Barcelona, I talked to Tal Holtzman Segal, a friend and colleague for the field of excursions that I was glad to have been able to travel with her in the Garcia neighborhood, when everything was still open and possible a month ago!
Tal takes families and couples for personal cultural tours to show her secret Barcelona!
She takes you to the hottest spots in her favorite neighborhood in Barcelona that not everyone knows and meet, and spaces up the tour with fine coffee places, and lots of local art and fashion stores, small local markets and patisserie and beautiful colonial buildings…even the latest of Gaudi!
Tal loves to show the local culture and produce with a lot of pride, from her perspective as a neighborhood resident, and also shares her personal story about what mead her move there with her family a few years ago?!
- A glimpse of a video I made from Tal’s secret Barcelona Tour, attached below!
Although Tal is currently in curating at her house, like everyone else in Barcelona.
Still I thought it will be nice to support one Spanish family and ask you to follow her page on Instagram. she shares the neighborhood vibe and life, and it’s interesting to see the way the Spanish people in quarantining come together every day and night, to help one another.
by singing tougher, or clapping hands on the balconies in the evening to cheer the medical staff that work so hard to save life!
Tal also put video of policeman’s serenades on the streets to entertain the people and especially the old population and maintaining high moral.
More on Tal’s Instagram -My secret Barcelona /
I wish her, and also mu uncles, better days and hopefully they and all of us will soon be released from quarantine and return to routine life, cultural tours and in the case of my uncles, I hope they will soon be able to unit with their children and grandchildren.
#LoveYouSpain!