Home sweet second home… although we technically hadn’t been away from Switzerland that long (see failed attempt), this time we had a decent 3 weeks to pace ourselves through catch-ups (even though I worked most days from 6am-2:30pm to crossover with HK timezone). It was gorgeous early summer weather and we made the most of it, getting up mountains and down to lakes, eating tons of swiss goodies and catching up with friends and family. We hosted our good friends from HK for a few days, I ‘popped’ to Singapore for a work trip and we went to London for a night to see HK friends who’d bailed due to covid, SO nice to be able to do short trips in and out of places with no thoughts of quarantine and minimal to zero testing needed.

Sadly reality had to come back at some time and we were due back in Hong Kong in early June. To ensure we had the least chance of issues with our quarantine hotel booking we wanted our flight into HK to be from close-by, so we decided to work in a few days in Kuala Lumpur and fly from there to Hong Kong. We did a lot of walking and eating, as one does in a big city trip, and R snuck in time for a quick-fix for a toothache (not wanting to be stuck in a hotel room with that sorta issue!), we also day tripped out to a super funky colorful temple area and did a decadent street food tour. We enjoyed KL, but I think the dread of returning to the restrictions in HK and the 2 week quarantine looming over us took a little bit of the shine off it, we weren’t in the most amazing of moods.

We survived the 2 weeks quarantine in a hotel room together fairly well - it rained a lot of the time which kinda helped. I worked, R gamed, I worked out, R stubbornly didn’t, we got super creative with ‘cooking’ with only a kettle (the food they delivered was predominantly inedibly-gross) and generally did an ok job of staying sane. However we re-entered the outside world with a new-found level of distaste for all the restrictions, the mask wearing, the contrast against the freedom of the past few months was stark.