"The guy in the room next to me, it sounded like he couldn’t take it anymore, because one day you could hear him start smashing things."

For his 50th birthday, Seminole County Tax Collector J.R. Kroll received a six-day vacation to Iceland as a gift from his wife, Holly.

“I thought: ‘Wow, this sounds like a great trip,’” Kroll said.

But the venture was far from pleasant thanks to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Kroll found himself alone for nearly 11 days quarantined inside a “cruddy” government-run hotel room and being served three cold meals a day.

“You were not allowed to open the door. And if I left, I would be arrested,” Kroll said Friday, a day after he arrived home from the north European country.

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