Lockdown is not completely over in Spain and, as long as we keep on tracing the contagion, it won’t be over anytime soon. However, and In spite of a strange feeling of shadowy nuisance, we are everyday closer to the ordinary life we used to live before the lockdown began. Strangely enough, in many regions of this peculiar country, normality means running back to our stressful lives, more than taking it easy and relaxing.
In the last months, when the lockdown was much stricter, I rediscovered surrounding spaces, a different extent of personal communication, the sounds of nature, even silence.
Among those novel circumstances, I was lucky enough to spend my Sundays with my extended family. We used to share lunch time and for innumerable weeks we alternated the preparation of special meals to share with our beloved relatives. Quite accidentally, the members of our extended family come from different countries, so different, wonderful meals were prepared every time. Here goes a “taste” of most of them…