Daisy Davis was meant to go travelling, but instead made sandwiches in a local cafe. Photograph: David Yeo/The Guardian âThis isnât how my gap year was meant to beâ: how Covid turned young peopleâs lives upside down Daisy Davis was meant to go travelling, but instead made sandwiches in a local cafe. Photograph: David Yeo/The Guardian Some have missed out on adventure, others on university places â but as well as turmoil, the pandemic has thrown up some surprising consolations Sat 8 May 2021 07.00 EDT When Daisy Davis imagined her gap year, she pictured global adventure. Building schools as a volunteer in Tanzania or Ghana, perhaps, Interrailing through Europe, or travelling in Thailand. Finally 18 and with a year of blissful freedom before university, Daisy presumed that the world was there to be explored.