Appetite For Distraction
Never mind your actual holiday: entering a hotel room for the first time is an entertaining little adventure all its own
It’s a commonly accepted fact that the number one perk of staying in a hotel is the breakfast buffet. The tiny pain au chocolat, the passive-aggressive queue for the toast rotisserie, the surge of pure joy upon discovering a waffle-maker or perhaps even the pièce de resistance: a print-your-own-pancake machine. They had one of these machines in the Radisson Hotel in Athlone when I stayed there several years ago, and I think of ...