In this guest post by my husband Jeff, he describes the Real Hotel Quarantine experience in Sydney. TL;DR? We fumbled our way through it, he worked and I talked on the phone and did a course, we ate a lot, got a treadmill, did yoga and drank wine. Chapter 1 The new norm! D minus One. The test, the passport & the plastic chair So here … Continue reading Guest Post: An alternative description of hotel quarantine in Australia
In this brief post, the last of the quarantine series (for a while), and a contrast to the very long guest post by my husband about Mandatory Hotel Quarantine in Sydney, Australia, I share how home quarantine is so much better for mental health than Hotel Quarantine. Last month we arrived back in Seoul after visiting our relatives and friends in Australia. I would like … Continue reading Home Quarantine is a gazillion times better than Hotel Quarantine
Our preparations for our trip to Sydney last month to see our children, our siblings our parents and friends began months ago. Initially, overseas travel was out of the question. The multiple PCR tests, the heightened risk of catching COVID, the quarantine and the expense seemed insurmountable in 2020. Then the risk of outbreaks which could rapidly lead to lockdowns within Greater Sydney and inevitably … Continue reading It’s travel but not as we knew it
In Australia, the mandatory 14 day hotel quarantine due to the pandemic is federally mandated but it is run by the individual states and territories. Thus, each system will be slightly different. The concept is the same though, you are required upon arrival into whatever state or territory you land in, to quarantine for 14 days in a hotel that is randomly assigned to you. … Continue reading Top Ten Tips for Mandatory Hotel Quarantine In Sydney, Australia
September 2020 marked a full year of our residency in South Korea. I had been looking forward to spring in Seoul and the famed cherry blossoms from February 2020 just as the pandemic hit full force in Seoul. Instead of experiencing that spring I travelled to the Southern Hemisphere late February to visit my children in New Zealand and Australia and hence went straight from … Continue reading Two Autumns
Korean Lessons - Living in Seoul 