linda huber

Tag: restrictions

  • Coronavirus winter – hope hurts…

    Spring starts two weeks today, so we’re entering the final stages of this coronavirus winter. And it’s just over a year ago, on February 28th 2020, that the first restrictions here in Switzerland took hold – carnival balls and processions were cancelled, along with all other mass events. Ah well, we thought. Next year. Ha.…

  • Coronavirus Autumn – “It all looks so normal…”

    At eleven o’clock last Monday I was in our local medical centre, waiting for the lift after my appointment. It arrived and I stepped in, then noticed a tiny elderly lady – she must have been well over eighty, if not ninety – approaching. I stopped the lift doors closing, and called to her. ‘Are…

  • (Coronavirus) summer scenes…

    To say that springtime 2020 was different to other springs is an understatement, considering we spent most of it in full coronavirus lockdown. Now it’s summer, and while some restrictions have been relaxed, we are still in the middle of a pandemic, and the usual activities and conversations aren’t always possible. Here are a few…