The French couple Bastian and Audrey Laurent have settled on the island of Djerba in southern Tunisia to spend the days of quarantine without knowing the date and location of the next destination, similar to their likes from travelers who roam the world, while several countries entered a period of closure due to the outbreak of the Corona virus.
"We arrived in mid-January after we visited Italy and the pandemic had just begun," says Audrey.
The couple has been traveling with their two children (seven and nine years) since 2017 after they sold everything they owned, and decided to enter into adventure adventures from one country to another.
With their arrival in Tunisia, the new Corona virus began to spread in Europe, and they started their journey in Tunisia by visiting the hot springs in the city of Qurbus (east), then the coasts of the island of Kerkennah, reaching the Tunisian desert in the south. .
In parallel, the Tunisian authorities began to take gradual preventive measures to prevent the spread of the disease in the country by closing the air, land and sea borders, banning gatherings and imposing the return of foreigners to quarantine for two weeks. "We realized that the life of nomadism became complicated, so we went back to Jariyah," the tourist island that the tourists left, where they found friends.
"We decided to return before the government imposed the quarantine, because we do not want to continue, and there is a hypothesis that we are carriers of the virus and the possibility of spreading it in areas," says Audrey.
We are one of the first to defend the benefits of travel, but we must know when to stop. ”
The couple rented a modest house near the sea to ensure water supply before the Tunisian government tightened mobility measures to curb the spread of infection on March 22nd.
Audrey, who is keen to publish the videos, continues that her place of residence opposite the blue Mediterranean is "cool, frankly ... there is no room for complaining."
For his part, Bastian sees that, "For the first time, we will spend a long time in the same place, and we will continue to live outside and sleep together."
"We do not want to leave the car, and we do not have a home in France ... The Tunisian authorities are very active and this reassures us," Audrey asserts.
A number of backpackers spend a quarantine period in a number of parts of the world and share their stories through social media, including those who settled in Spain and Morocco, as well as in Indonesia and Peru and in southern Thailand and Australia.
Bastian and Audrey, who get paid from selling photos, videos and reports to travel agencies, consider "a nomadic lifestyle will be complicated, including on the economic side," in the future. It is difficult to know when the stone's term ends, as well as when the borders will be reopened.