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Release date is getting closer - should be counting down the hours now - under 26 hours to go! Today we got all sorts of documents to read. Instructions from the hotel on what to do tomorrow. Letter from the NSW Police certify that each of us has completed the required 14 days for our prison...

Yes, counting down: 2 1/2 days and 7 meals till release. Agree, why fully vaccinated returnees need to be locked up in risky prison hotel environment - while our "vaccine is not a race" leader quarantined in the luxury tax payer funded lodge? We consider ourselves to be very lucky to get...

Will let you know after our release. However we are not in a hurry to receive it, as we have a huge land tax bill from revenue nsw to be paid in one months time 😩😩

We were lucky to live in both LA (in our much younger days - 5 years) and London (in our older days - 9 1/2 years). We treasure both experiences. We would return to live in London again, but not LA - although I have relatives living there. However, Sydney will be once again our home! We are...

Breakfast this morning The hotel reception just phoned to give details about our release date. Sunday evening between 4pm and 6pm - hooray 🙏🏻🙏🏻 He said since everyone wants to escape ASAP at 4pm, so suggested we leave a little later. Hubby said 5pm would be OK. They will book a maxi taxi...

We were grateful for the TP stash mrscove had in your London flat 🤣 And, I had enough time to restock them before we left. At the beginning of the London lockdown, my young girlfriend drove to our rental flat and dropped off 100 disposable face masks (three months before WHO decided masks...

Can't wait to get out of "jail". Hubby said at midnight - another 2 hours away - we have served 2/3 of our detention. It will be like establishing a whole new life after almost 10 years on the wanderlust run. Thankfully we were able to return home now, as both Qld and Vic said they wanted to...

Another 5 days to release - hooray! And 15 more meals to go ... Found a way to fund our prison quarantine cost - plenty of toilet paper from hotel supplies 😂 And this is how people using toilet paper to protect themselves!

For lunch today, they only delivered one meal portion (instead 2 normally): ricotta cheese and spinach pastizzi with Greek salad, a water bottle and a bag of popcorn. The pastizzi and salad were nice. We had enough to eat and didn't want to complain about one portion because we don't want...

Another day in "paradise" prison hotel quarantine 😂 Half way to serving the mandatory detention. Another 20 meals to consume till release day. This morning hubby on chat to QF health insurance promo, and they wanted to talk to him, so he gave them the hotel and our cell number. When the phone...

Currently serving half time in prison hotel quarantine, plenty of time on hand to prepare for a new life outside 😂 after release. Hubby has been thinking of private health insurance. We had it for at least 6 years (before our wanderlust to the UK) with a small health fund called Phoenix, and...

Glad you got to IGA before the Perth lockdown, to get granny her ice cream and Lindt chocolates, and the birds their food. Hooray, half way to release date. Tonight we heard talking noises in the corridor, so it sounded like the next lot of inmates have arrived. Hope they are not in the cell...

We watched the Blue Bridge and other bridges opened from time to time. We missed living on the Thames and near Canary Wharf. We feel for you not being able to visit and stay at your beautiful overseas apartments. We hope these lockdowns will be a thing of the past one day and all of us can...

After we arrived at SYD, we were handed 2 paper bags with 20 disposal masks in each - they will come in good use now.

We will not be able to come around your place for that BBQ then 😩 Just drive past our house and we will wave at you from a safe distance instead 😂 At least we will be at home with fresh air, sunshine and freedom to move around inside our home and have a conversation with the rainbow lorrikeets...

After living the High Life for 4 months with these surround lofty views to this 😩 🤣

Another 8 1/2 days to go, and 25 square meals to go 😜 - actually today's lunch was not too bad 8/10 with a nice slaw salad. There is an info brochure in the cell with the hotel email address for amenity requests. The services have improved - today they delivered fresh set of bed linen for 2...

Thanks, Seat0B for your support. We are being sustained and kept sane by daily amusing chats from cove. This afternoon kpc tel us at prison hotel for a chat and he got the Spanish inquisition 🤣 - what was his relationship to us and the purpose of his call. The prison hotel is now a hot spot in...

I know we are not alone in this punishment. There are 5 pillows now and all hard as rock. They don't have pillow menu 😂 A girlfriend complained that her commodity trader husband inherited a large chunk from his father, and spent most of his time during the working from home lockdowns on the...

I thought it was Novotel DH as it was dark when we arrived, but you are correct it is Novotel Sydney Central. Our cell overlooks a tall building. yesterday the phone rang and hubby decided to answer it: Her Majesty Australian prison Novotel, cell 1125, inmate (our name) speaking. The nurse...