another beautiful day here in valencia
and even though it's getting a little
bit dark i got so many comments and
questions and messages about the
situation here in spain and what the
restrictions are so instead of replying
to each message i decided to do a quick
video experience and see
how people are complying with the
restrictions
at the moment masked up unfortunately
since this whole situation started with
covet we've been walking with masks at
least in valencia and i can't speak for
all regions of spain because as you know
every single region makes their own
decision and there's some that are
regulated by the government of spain and
they're mandatory for the whole country
but usually every region makes decision
for the people living in that area we've
been with masks outside since the
pandemic started when you're at the park
or if you're just in a less crowded
place
you can take it off but right now it
became mandatory again they're saying
that they'll keep these restrictions
until the end of january but who knows
uh today we got the highest number of
cases which was a hundred thousand
people for the day
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and besides masks outside and of course
inside
stores grocery stores and regular stores
all restaurants big venues bars
coffee places
gyms
cinema everywhere there's a certificate
of coffee required
this is the typical sign you see
that certificate is required
yesterday we walked out on colon street
where all the shops are located all the
main stores
and it was like new york manhattan there
were so many people i don't know if
they're still doing their christmas
shopping because here in spain besides
the 25th christmas day they give gifts
on 6th of january
it's called 3 kings and everyone was out
shopping and just walking the streets
was so populated we walked into one
starbucks because i normally drink black
coffee no sugar no milk but around
holidays i got the habit living in in
the states for so long to get into the
christmas spirit with some flavors at
starbucks like uh
pumpkin spice latte the mint latte
eggnog and all these flavors and we
walked into starbucks and there were
none and i know they have them because
before i i had some from there but the
guy apologized he said it's a disaster
i'm so sorry we don't have any of the
christmas flavors so now i'm going to
another starbucks hopefully they have
something christmassy so i can
get a little bit of that feeling because
i'm gonna go into into starbucks
let's see what they have here
two-story starbucks
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do you have a pumpkin spice latte no we
don't have any more no
eggnog
eggnog or
mint
no christmas no
no no okay okay
another bummer i don't know they
probably
they probably run out of supplies for
christmas i don't know what's going on
so that was another unsuccessful
christmas
flavor
starbucks
fail and we're walking into the center
center of the city
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this is the 360.
as you can see quite a lot of people
here home gathering so far they have no
restrictions there's no curfew like it
was last year they're restricting people
only 10 people per table if you eat
somewhere the restaurant which i guess
for spain is very little in the states
you probably have a problem gathering
even three to five friends but here 10
people it's the
you know it's stressing them out because
it's too little in spain
about 90 percent of the population is
fully vaccinated so that's not a problem
with the certificates but what i find
funny is that in spain
it's almost like
a punishment to sit inside so the
requirement is to show certificate if
you want to sit inside
but actually everybody wants to sit
outside everybody's sitting at the
tables
you know because it's so warm the
weather is great
i don't see anyone um
having a problem with that
if let's say you're not vaccinated and
you want to sit outside there is really
no
there is really no issue
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let's see how many people we have here
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everyone's out everyone's still
celebrating there is the christmas
spirit and um
except that i couldn't get my
pumpkin spice latte
very upset about it
and this is the christmas market no real
restrictions accept this
so every region in spain is different
and they have different requirements
for the covet restrictions
and what's strange to me
is that
the region of madrid has a lot of
infected people not in a critical
conditions of course the icu cases and
the death cases are way lower than than
previously
but
they have a very
progressive mayor there which they call
i think president
but it's a very progressive mayor and it
seems like they're
they're much freer to move to do things
they're no
no certificates required
anywhere the restaurants there are no
other extra restrictions
um even for masks i think i mean outside
people wear masks
but it's not like here
and i talked to a friend in andalusia in
marbella
and
they they have the same restrictions as
valencia
but he said nobody asks for certificates
at restaurants which doesn't surprise me
really it's marbella it's almost like an
autonomous
country in a way
but uh yeah here they're very strict and
the cases in valencia are super low i
think
i believe like 700
you know compared to like um
6 000 or 7 000
but still we're having a lot of
restrictions
anyway to enter the country you need
your certificate of vaccination or
pcr tests and then everywhere you go you
would need that
and if not you just eat outside and
enjoy the good weather
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let me give you a bit of a night walk
here in valencia
in the center just so you can get um the
feeling
at the moment and it's dark
i just thought it's nice to show you
this um little street
a cool wine bar
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and some stores
the street is close to the center but
it's not
crazy busy and
always street musicians
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even more people here at night
i don't think anyone's avoiding large
gatherings just the opposite
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