19 Mar 2020

Show jumper Lily Tootill on crossing Europe

From Afternoons, 1:40 pm on 19 March 2020

For many New Zealanders the crisis in Europe can feel like a long way away. But for Olympic show jumping hopeful Lily Tootill it’s a daily reality. She’s left her training base in northern Spain with other people, and horses, trying to make it to the UK. She says the roads are empty and the lack of checking at borders feels surreal. 

 

EU, UK, Borders, Passport and European Union signs and inscription in London Stansted STN airport in England, UK on 23 August 2019 a few months before the Brexit. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto)

Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto