Travel quarantines: Enduring the mundane, one day at a time
25 Feb, 2021 07:49 PM
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A woman stands at the window of her hotel room during mandatory quarantine in Sydney. Photo / Getty Images
New York Times
By: Lauren Sloss
Running a half-marathon in your hotel room. Hearing the sea, but not seeing it. Fixating on food. Here s how some travellers passed the time during their mandatory quarantines. May Samali knew she had reached her limit when she saw a tentacle emerging from her hotel dinner in Sydney. I called downstairs and said, I m a vegan now, thank you! she said. It was just so much fish. I d gotten to the point where even thinking about it made me gag.
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