Is it me or do the flowers seem more magnificent than ever this spring? Maybe it’s because we have fewer distractions, or because they’re the only real nature we can enjoy at the moment. Or perhaps we’re just hyper-sensitive to the passage of time and the...
Tag - Coronavirus
The Paulowina trees on the Place d'Italie are in bloom, and they smell AMAZING without all of the cars stinking up the place. Fun fact of the day (which I'm sure residents can already guess): Concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), produced mainly by...
Hard to believe 32 days have passed since Paris started the lockdown and confinement measures. Weirdly, I don’t even think about where I can’t go anymore (clothes shopping, to the movie theatre, out to dinner), I’ve become totally used to the daily routine...
In case you’re already counting down the days to May 11th when President Macron announced France would “start reopening schools”, today the country has 762 new deaths in the past 24 hours, for a total of 15,729 Covid-19 victims. On the positive side, the...
Has it really been a whole month? Has it only been a month? Are we really going to have to keep doing this for another 30 days? Short answer: Yes.
Easter 2020 took place on Day 29 of the Coronaviris Lockdown in Paris. At least there's chocolate.
This morning I woke early to get in a short run before 10am and had my first police “control” since the lockdown as I was crossing the Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir to Parc de Bercy. With the online attestation it was super quick; the officer just scanned my...
The first strawberries of the season have arrived at my local coop supermarket, and I’m enjoying them so much I feel like I’m breaking a lockdown rule!
"We are gradually curbing the epidemic," said Jerome Salomon (French Health Minister). However, "if we can hope for a plateau (in the pandemic) it is a very high plateau and we must remain extremely careful to redouble our collective and united efforts," in...
It came to no one’s surprise that the French government announced that the lockdown is going to last longer than the original April 15th date given two weeks ago. They can’t say right now how long it will last, but most assume it will be several more weeks...
Day 24 in Paris during the coronavirus lockdown, the last lunch run for everyone (and that's probably a good thing, I swallowed at least one bug today...spring has sprung!)
Despite a lot of consternation at the unruly Parisians strolling around in the sunshine over the weekend, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner announced this morning that "the French are among the best in the world at respecting the confinement...
