STRANDED
Apr 30, 2020
3 minutes
You can’t stay here,’ said the frightened hotel receptionist, backing away as far as she could. Stretching out her arms, she flipped round her computer screen. ‘No foreigners,’ it read.
It was the first day of Argentina’s coronavirus panic and we were on the wrong side of the world. Overnight, our longed-for grown-up gap trip had ended and we were being refused a bed because of our nationality.
I thought of the warm welcome we’d received just four weeks earlier when we
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