A trip through Central America. A year abroad and hopefully a dream realised. The opportunity to learn Spanish, soak in the Latin culture and trace the footsteps trod by the Incas and Aztecs hundreds of years before us. Until the whole world came to a standstill that is. Well, all but Nicaragua. It was March 10th and we were in El Tunco, a cosy surfers village in El Salvador, when the rumours began. The President was intent on closing their borders. And we were on the wrong side. Covid 19 had arrived. The vagaries of quarantine and social distancing were by now normalised in Europe and Asia but only recently had…