Like many people, Chloe Dickenson’s travel plans ground to a halt last year when the world was thrown into lockdown.

A so-called “digital nomad”, the 22-year-old was living and working from her laptop overseas. In March 2020, she was 11 months into a stint across South East Asia and Australia when her and her boyfriend’s itinerary had to be shelved.

“We were in Vietnam, and our original plan was to continue travelling around Asia,” says the freelance writer and travel blogger. “But once it became clear that this wasn’t really a possibility, we booked a flight to Greece for the end of March, with the intention of spending a few months in Greece, Montenegro, Albania and Croatia until the virus ‘calmed down’.”

However, seeing the pandemic quickly spread, they felt the best plan was to figure out how to return to the UK from Greece. “We were definitely in two minds about what to do, we definitely didn’t want to go home just yet, but it seemed like the safest and most logical thing to do at the time,” says Ms Dickenson.

So, on 15 March 2020, the couple embarked on a long journey home across Europe. “We travelled across four countries in 66 hours, and it took three planes, four cars and two buses for us to arrive home in the UK at my parents’ house in Penrith, Cumbria.”