May 13, 2021
For those who don’t want to or can’t stay in one place during the pandemic – including Singaporean Isabel Leong – travelling is proving something of a challenge.
Isabelle Leong
The Covid-19 pandemic has turned many lives into minor versions of the movie Groundhog Day, but for a few who are unwilling, or unable, to live in suspended animation, continued travelling has proved challenging, bizarre, scary even.
When the crisis began, wayfaring translator Bruce Humes found himself close to the epicentre. I was in Taiwan, working on a translation of a book about the Mogao Caves, in Dunhuang, on the Silk Road, he explains.