In 2017, Christian Lewis set out to walk the entire coastline of the UK. Now, over 2 years into his journey, the country's lockdown has stranded him on an uninhabited island with his dog, Jet
What happens when you're nearly three years into the middle of a 8,700 mile hike, you've given up your home, you have no money -- and then coronavirus stops the world in its tracks?
Instead, thanks to the kindness of complete strangers, he's found himself in arguably one of the best places on the planet to sit out the crisis -- a cottage on a tiny island all to himself. "To get back to the mainland is only about a half hour by small boat," he says."But that stretch of sea is not the nicest, so we really have to pick and choose our days when we get back."
While he managed to avoid ongoing news reports about the pandemic on his travels, he'd picked up various bits of information from people he'd encountered while walking.The pair were given the keys to this house after the owners learned they were camping on the uninhabited island."I knew the lockdown was coming," he explains."I had to make a real decision. I can't go home, because I have no home to go to.
"It hasn't got electric or gas," he says."It's just very basic. But it's out of the wind, and it's got a nice fire., people in the UK are only allowed to leave their homes for significant reasons, such as shopping for basic necessities, to take one form of exercise per day, deal with any medical needs, or provide care or help to a vulnerable person.
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