After renting their home in Aurora, Colo., for the last six years, Kristin Mallory and her husband were ready to make the leap to becoming homeowners. And while they went into the home-buying process expecting a challenge, what they’ve encountered is nothing like they’ve expected. “We had no idea how …
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Neil Schwartzman is used to getting vaccines in order to travel to exotic parts of the world such as the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Ko Pha Ngan in Thailand. Over the past 30 years, he has meticulously maintained a vaccination record book to ensure he can safely visit …
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Erika Behlmer-Rothberg, a 30-year-old Ph.D student from Florida, has finally booked a honeymoon with her husband. She chose a European river-cruise vacation for the week of Christmas as a honeymoon getaway with her husband. She’s in favor of cruise lines requiring vaccines. “We had put a pause on both our …
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COMO, Italy — The death rate is on the rise. In the last 24 hours in Italy, there have been 25,735 new cases of COVID-19, with the rate of infection stable at 7%, as half of Italy’s regions are once again in strict lockdown as designated red zones, one year …
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MADRID — So the COVID-19 pandemic is making your life complicated? Hold my extra-frosty cerveza, was the message Storm Filomena delivered to Spain over the weekend. Filomena dumped around 20 inches of snow on the Spanish capital Madrid between Friday evening and Saturday — this in a city where any …
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The Four Seasons Hotel (pictured left) near Madrid’s Puerta del Sol on Nov. 17, 2020. Kollmeyer/MarketWatch For 41 years, families in the Spanish capital of Madrid have kicked off the Christmas holidays by gathering behind the big El Corte Inglés department store to watch giant, singing puppets. The store’s “Cortylandia” …
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People wearing face masks stroll and relax along the seafront near the Castel dell’Ovo fortress in downtown Naples on Nov. 12, 2020, amid a surge of COVID-19 cases overwhelming hospitals. AFP via Getty Images Many are facing the harsh reality that Italy has a terrible second wave as the cold …
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As the nation’s attention was focused on who would be the next president the day after the Nov. 3 election, Sierra Graves was busy grabbing as many of her and her three children’s belongings as she could. Just 10 minutes later, sheriff’s deputies knocked on her apartment door to evict …
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MADRID — Just days away from the start of a new school year, Spain’s capital city rolled out fresh restrictions on Monday to cope with what’s becoming a relentless second wave of cases. But those measures — strict controls on the distance between seats rather than tables in food-service settings, …
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