What it's like being stuck at sea as Covid-19 shuts down borders

The ship was so close to docking at Montevideo port in Uruguay, but were refused by the authorities.

We were sailing back to civilisation from the southernmost tip of the world (Antarctica), bringing with us the heartfelt messages of love from the little penguins, when the captain told us that we had to be prepared to face a completely different world.

Things were not the same any more – the world was no longer what we used to know barely 15 days earlier.