Scenes from a Nightmare

We started the week on Monday in a strange sort of way. We were confined to our Comune, but the shops were open and we could go for our morning coffee and pastry to get the day stated. We still had some sort of normality. The empty streets seemed quite novel.

Reggio Emilia 

Reggio Emilia 

I took a stroll around an almost deserted town on Tuesday and a few brave market stall holders had set up a much-reduced market on market day.  The Lions in the market square had got some face masks, that are impossible to find for us mortals. 

Reggio Emilia 

Reggio Emilia 

Reggio Emilia 

Reggio Emilia 

Things midweek quickly changed as the earlier restrictions on our daily life did not seem to go far enough. 

Reggio Emilia 

Reggio Emilia 

Now only food shops are open and a strange queue forms, with people standing a metre apart outside the supermarket with only five people allowed in at a time. 

Reggio Emilia 

Reggio Emilia 

Reggio Emilia 

Reggio Emilia 

We went to the greengrocer in town and afterwards we wandered around an almost deserted Reggio. 

We were not even sure if we might get fined for being there without good reason as the Police are patrolling heavily. So, my photography was quick, discrete and without much thought. 

Reggio Emilia 

Nothing artistic with these pictures taken with my iPhone and M43. Just a record of a very particular moment that we are living through here. 

The little Lumix LX100 that I pop into my pocket is perfect for this type of photography; recording a very particular time.

The only thing to do to stay safe, is to stay at home as much as you can. I am lucky in that I work from home.


We here in Italy are quite surprised to say the least that the other European nations are being so slow to take the drastic measures that we had to take, just to be able to keep the health service from going into overload.