Neil Gaiman has defended travelling 11,000 miles from New Zealand to Scotland during the coronavirus pandemic. The author went from Auckland to the isle of Skye after he and wife Amanda Palmer ‘agreed to give each other some space’.
The pair share a four-year-old son Ash. He is now isolating at his Scottish property, which he has owned for 10 years. The 59-year-old described wearing a mask and gloves to fly from an ’empty Auckland airport’.
He made the journey by flying with British Airways to London before driving in a friend’s car to Skye. Explaining what prompted the decision, Gaiman wrote on his blog: ‘I needed to be somewhere I could talk to people in the UK while they and I were awake, not just before breakfast and after dinner.
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