Damien Enright: Coping with confinement by coronavirus in the Canaries

I'm writing this column on March 25. Dates are suddenly vital. Measures to lower the death toll from Covid-19 improve daily. For some of us, their early implementation makes the difference between life and death.

The main beach at Valle Gran Rey, La Gomera, happily not overdeveloped but, sadly, closed to the public in the coronavirus lockdown. The warm sea rolls onto deserted, black sand beaches. Picture: Damien Enright

I am writing this column on March 25. Dates are suddenly vital. Measures to lower the death toll from Covid-19 improve daily. For some of us, their early implementation makes the difference between life and death.

When my phone rings from Ireland, the UK or anywhere beyond the shores of this isolated island of La Gomera, in the Canaries, the first question is, invariably: “What’s it like there?”