A large group of teens from Europe got a warm welcome returning home after being stuck at sea during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dutch teens cheering on their schooner, Wylde Swan, after sailing home from the Caribbean across the Atlantic.
“Being flexible, because everything is changing all the time,” she said as she set foot on dry land again. “The arrival time changed like 100 times. Being flexible is really important.” As they arrived home, the students hung up a self-made banner reading “Bucket List,” with checked boxes for the Atlantic Ocean crossing, a mid-ocean swim and surviving the Bermuda triangle.
“At home, you just have some moments for yourself, but here you have to be social all the time to everyone because you’re sleeping with them, you’re eating with them, you’re just doing everything with them so you can’t really just relax,” she said.
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