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PROLOGUE
“Are you finished with your run?”, Mrs yflyer asked me, when I answered my cell phone as I was cooling down at East Coast Park.
“Yes I am. I’m coming home now.”
“Good, because I’ve just tested positive…”
Bummer.
This was 3 days after we had returned from our trip to Melbourne in late May 2022.
I had taken an ART (Antigen Rapid Test) the day after we returned. It was negative, and so was hers. We thought we had gotten away with it – a holiday overseas and back without catching COVID.
But no. That morning, Mrs yflyer thought her throat felt scratchy, and decided to take an ART. A faint red line under the T symbol on the test kit told her all she needed to know.
Back home, I moved my computer, some clothing, and toiletries into a spare bedroom, and spent the next week or so living there, while Mrs yflyer spent the next week or so in isolation in our bedroom, as she recovered from COVID.
The next few days were a little tense, as all our close contacts, including our daughter, my sister, my niece and nephew, and both our elderly mums tested themselves each day. A couple of days later, my sister also tested positive.
Incredibly, everyone else tested negative. That was a month ago, and so the only 2 cases were Mrs yflyer and my sister. Thankfully both their infections were very mild: a sore throat, a stuffy nose, and some coughing and phlegm. Mrs yflyer never even lost her sense of smell the whole time. They were both double-vaxed and boostered – that probably had something to do with it. Thank you, MOH! Eventually their ARTs grew faint and disappeared – with thankfully no long term symptoms.
To this day we have no idea where Mrs yflyer was infected. Was it in Melbourne, or while we were on the plane home? We flew business class on SQ there and back. Mrs yflyer had a solo J window seat on the return, so it seemed unlikely that she caught it on the flight. While in Melbourne, there were no mask mandates, except while on public transport (trains, trams, buses etc), and apart from travelling on public transport my mask was off most of the time. Ironically, Mrs yflyer was the one who kept her mask on while outdoors.
In any case, she is up and about now, fully recovered, and if the press is to be believed, it appears that if you have been vaccinated, and have recovered from COVID, you have very good immunity, even better than folks who have been vaccinated but have not yet been infected…
So with that out of the way, let us move on to the main topic: our trip to Melbourne on SQ…
TR INDEX
“Are you finished with your run?”, Mrs yflyer asked me, when I answered my cell phone as I was cooling down at East Coast Park.
“Yes I am. I’m coming home now.”
“Good, because I’ve just tested positive…”
Bummer.
This was 3 days after we had returned from our trip to Melbourne in late May 2022.
I had taken an ART (Antigen Rapid Test) the day after we returned. It was negative, and so was hers. We thought we had gotten away with it – a holiday overseas and back without catching COVID.
But no. That morning, Mrs yflyer thought her throat felt scratchy, and decided to take an ART. A faint red line under the T symbol on the test kit told her all she needed to know.
Back home, I moved my computer, some clothing, and toiletries into a spare bedroom, and spent the next week or so living there, while Mrs yflyer spent the next week or so in isolation in our bedroom, as she recovered from COVID.
The next few days were a little tense, as all our close contacts, including our daughter, my sister, my niece and nephew, and both our elderly mums tested themselves each day. A couple of days later, my sister also tested positive.
Incredibly, everyone else tested negative. That was a month ago, and so the only 2 cases were Mrs yflyer and my sister. Thankfully both their infections were very mild: a sore throat, a stuffy nose, and some coughing and phlegm. Mrs yflyer never even lost her sense of smell the whole time. They were both double-vaxed and boostered – that probably had something to do with it. Thank you, MOH! Eventually their ARTs grew faint and disappeared – with thankfully no long term symptoms.
To this day we have no idea where Mrs yflyer was infected. Was it in Melbourne, or while we were on the plane home? We flew business class on SQ there and back. Mrs yflyer had a solo J window seat on the return, so it seemed unlikely that she caught it on the flight. While in Melbourne, there were no mask mandates, except while on public transport (trains, trams, buses etc), and apart from travelling on public transport my mask was off most of the time. Ironically, Mrs yflyer was the one who kept her mask on while outdoors.
In any case, she is up and about now, fully recovered, and if the press is to be believed, it appears that if you have been vaccinated, and have recovered from COVID, you have very good immunity, even better than folks who have been vaccinated but have not yet been infected…
So with that out of the way, let us move on to the main topic: our trip to Melbourne on SQ…
TR INDEX
- Prologue
- Airport/Lounge: Changi T3 and SilverKris Lounge
- Flight: SQ227 SIN-MEL in Business Class
- Hotel: Brady at Hardware Lane
- Dining: Lulu's Char Koay Teow
- Run: Yarra River and Flinders Street Station
- Dining: Big Esso / Mabu Manu
- Dining: Movida at Hosier Lane
- Bar: Byrdi
- Play: Harry Potter
- Dining: Halal Snack Pack!
- Chinatown & Chinese Museum
- Dining: Mesob
- Bar: Beneath Driver Lane
- Musical: Hamilton
- Queen Victoria Market
- Hotel: Hilton Melbourne at Little Queen Street
- Bar: Douglas Club
- Dining: Pho Thin
- Dining: Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne
- Yarra Valley Wine Tour and Yarra Dairy
- Winery: Yering Station
- Winery/Dining: Tarrawarra
- Dining: South Melbourne Market and a Barbecue in Lilydale
- Dining: Mjolner
- Run: Melbourne CBD to St Kilda Pier
- Dining/Bar: Arbory
- Dining: Rococo with SQTalkers Kyo, SQ228 and SQ218
- Airport: MEL Terminal 2
- Lounge: MEL SilverKris Lounge
- Lounge: MEL Air New Zealand Lounge
- Flight: SQ238 MEL-SIN in Business Class
- Airport: Changi's T3 Arrival
- Final Reflections
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