I started my second week in Malmö with a quick trip to the Turning Torso after work, taking a stroll through Västra Hamnen:
Afterwards, I headed out to Limhamn to catch up with some good friends for dinner.
Tuesday was another laundry day, with a little bit of time for shopping to pick up a luggage scale - I was really starting to worry about the weight of all of my bags at this point. This time I booked two sessions at the laundry room, so I had plenty of time to get my clothes dried.
I snapped a couple of pictures on my walks:
Gustav Adolfs Torg (Part of the Fem fontäner och ett klot (Five Fountains and a Ball) sculpture by Sivert Lindblom in 2000):
After work on Friday I went to visit some friends for a curry meal and catch up.
Later that night, I started planning for my return flight on Wednesday. I packed my bags and weighed them all, booked my Covid-19 PCR test for Monday and was chatting to Kris on Messenger when I mentioned that while I'd had no symptoms I was concerned that the test would come back positive. I'd bought some Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) from Maxi ICA as they were hard to get in Australia, so Kris suggested I do one myself for peace of mind.
I did the nose probe, and then used the dropper to place three drops on the test space. Kris and I watched as the liquid moved up the testing strip. A line in the T section within 15 minutes would indicate a positive. Within a second or two, the liquid had reached the test area and almost immediately a line appeared, darker than the test line:
So I'd managed to catch Covid. It wasn't a massive surprise as almost 1 in every 2 people I knew in Sweden had had Covid (we caught up when they finished isolating) either while I was there or just before I arrived. I had to cancel my formal PCR test and speak to work. I had to isolate for 5 days and have 2 days without symptoms and needed to wait 11 days before I was able to go for my formal travel test. I was going to be in Sweden for an extra couple of weeks.
I tested again on Monday (day 3) and this time got a much lighter line - after the first few minutes I had a faint line:
On Wednesday I finally got a clear test:
During the whole time I'd had no real symptoms, a slight runny nose (but that's normal when you go from inside at 22 degrees to outside at 3 degrees) and felt a little tired but nothing that made me feel like I might have been sick.
I spent the weekend watching movies and playing the Nintendo I'd brought with me. A friend dropped some groceries off at the hotel for me and I locked myself away in my room.
By Wednesday afternoon (my birthday) I'd finally completed my quarantine and returned a negative test, and I was keen to get out and move around outside of my room. I got my my laundry done and went for a walk around some parts of Malmö I remembered from our Expat trip, but which I hadn't visited so far, Kings Park and Malmö Hus.
Decorations were up in Gustav Adolfs Torg for Valentines day:
Thursday (3rd Feb) was my first day back in the office and I spent the evening doing some shopping. There was a lot of construction work going on around the Vasträ Hamnen Maxi ICA:
Friday, I had a long day at work and a relaxing afternoon at the hotel:
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