An Italian student stranded in Spain due to the coronavirus crisis was driven more than 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) home, free of charge, by a taxi driver
Driver Kepa Amantegi, 22, drove Giada Collalto, also 22, from Bilbao, Spain, to Montebello, near Venice, Italy, after a series of unfortunate events left her stuck.
But when in mid-March her university closed and lectures and exams were moved online, she realized that staying in the Basque city"no longer made sense," she said.Mavis Johnston and the 1950s travel revolution that shrank the world "I was desperate and angry, my parents were worried but couldn't do anything to help me. I called the embassy and they told to me to send an email. All hotels in Madrid were closed, no public transport to go back to Bilbao," she added."He immediately said he was available to come to pick me up and he drove nine hours from Bilbao to Madrid and back," Collalto said.
"We called the local authorities and, as incredible as it may seem, we got all the necessary authorizations. I was allowed since I was traveling back home and he, as a taxi driver, was allowed because of his work."
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