Australians stranded in Canada by coronavirus couch-surfing to get by
By Georgina Smyth
FriFriday 12
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FriFriday 12
Ben Richards would love to get home to Adelaide.
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It s –33 degrees Celsius in rural British Columbia, Canada, and Ben Richard s nose hairs, eyelashes and beard have frozen solid.
The 36-year-old is on his way to work at the town s only shop The Big Lake Store, in BC s vast Central Interior. It s a post office, petrol station, pub and library in one.
He had hoped to be seeing the last of the place five weeks ago, when he registered for a rare Australian government repatriation flight out of Vancouver.