Categories for Around the World in Eighty Lockdowns

Postcard From South Carolina

I teach at a private college (four-year, Bachelor’s degree granting), in Greenville, South Carolina. I am a University Professor of...

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Postcard From Goa

by Will Smith As I live here in Goa – an English expat with Indian roots – I find myself...

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Postcard From Rwanda

I write this at the beginning of the third week of Rwanda’s second lockdown, some eight months after the first...

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Postcard from Paraguay

Paraguay is not a well-known country. Frankly, this is justified: it has nothing much to offer tourists that can’t also...

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Postcard from Japan

by Philip Patrick Japan is often cited as a Covid success story. Officially we are at 4,100 deaths now, which...

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Postcard From the Maldives

by Millicent and Nigel Since winning the ‘Save the NHS’ scratch card lottery last year Nigel and I made a...

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Postcard From North East Fife

by Dean Fraser You could almost have been forgiven for thinking we weren’t living in a dystopian nightmare up here...

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Postcard From Sicily

John Waterfield It was the first time we had travelled since the lockdown. It seemed quite a risky venture. All...

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Postcard From the Isle of Wight

By A.R. Norman One of the particular joys of living in our island corner of England is the sight of...

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A Postcard From Rhodes – PS

by Guy de la Bédoyère As we headed back to the airport our phones started screeching alarms about the earthquake...

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