After eight weeks (55 days) the French lockdown came to an end today. There may be some areas that are more severely affected and have different rules, but here in Rhône-Alpes we are allowed to move freely within 100 kilometers from home or within our department (Isère) — even beyond […]
The excellent news yesterday were that this confinement will end on May 11, unless there is a relapse. This means that we will be allowed to move without a certificate within 100 kilometers from home, and beyond that only for work or family emergency related purposes (with a certificate). Even […]
One month ago on March 17 at 12pm. France started a full lockdown that allows going out only for necessary shopping, seeing a doctor, or exercising for one hour, once a day, within one kilometer from home. So far we have gone grocery shopping once or twice a week, and […]
Since we are allowed to exercise within such a limited area, and we leave at the same time every day, around 7am., it is inevitable that we see the same people at the same places each morning. But we also see people running that we have never seen before. Honestly, […]
We here in France have been in home confinement for three weeks now, since the French government extended the lockdown by two weeks. The regulations are still the same: we are allowed to leave home only for necessary shopping and to do physical individual exercise once a day for one […]
This certainly has been a bizarre Spring. When we were in South Tyrol in Italy attending the biathlon world championship in February, we already started to hear and read about the alarming rate of new coronavirus cases in Lombardia region in Northern Italy. We were not really worried, even if […]