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."