Huw Lemmey's 'Utopian Drivel'

Huw Lemmey's 'Utopian Drivel'

Breakout

on the end of lockdown

Huw Lemmey
May 03, 2020
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(The author, knackered, on his first walk since March, looking out from the Palau Nacional over Barcelona)

The lockdown has broken in Spain, and it feels like a weather phenomenon. After a prolonged period of heat and humidity that has swallowed a city and sent its residents into a craze, a sort of Saramago-like curse, the spell has broken, rain has com…

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