Hegedues, seen in this picture standing at the peak of Costa Rica’s highest mountain Cerro Chirripo, has been travelling around South America since 2014. — Handout/dpa
They could have packed up and gone home. But a sense of adventure and the ability to change plans last minute is certainly a pre-requisite for a globetrotter, and several decided to see out the pandemic while still on the road regardless of the twists and turns.
Sascha Seib and his girlfriend, Claudia Tran Ngoc, from Germany found themselves in New Zealand in February 2020, shortly before the first lockdown there, but by then had already found work on a vineyard.
