'I sailed the Atlantic to see my parents in lockdown'
You wouldn't think sailing across the Atlantic alone would be the safest route from Portugal to Argentina. But that's what Juan Manuel Ballestero did when flights were cancelled and borders shut, at the start of the coronavirus lockdown. He spoke to us at the end of an 85-day journey.
(Photo: Juan Manuel Ballestero in Mar Del Plata, Argentina. Credit: Mara Sosti/AFP via Getty Images).
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