I went away for the weekend and stayed in a rather nice hotel. This is a major rarity for me as for holidays we usually camp or for short breaks stay in Travel Lodge type family rooms. I’ve always rated breakfast as the best meal of the day (indeed the only one we Brits are rated for) and prefer a big breakfast and light lunch (tho’ I will do big breakfast and big lunch if pushed to it). I also don’t really believe in “life before breakfast” and find the whole concept of showering and shaving before eating a major evil of being away from home.

Now normally the only time I’m in half way posh places is with business with everything on expenses and it therefore came as a bit of a shock when I was expected to reach into my own pocket at hotel prices. Having said I eat a big breakfast I would expect more than the human frame can contain for the £15 the they were charging. I made do with a piece of fruit until I’d walked into town where I had a seriously good meal for seriously less money.

My point is (yes there is one - of a sort) is that travel not only gives you a chance to try different things it sometimes forces different things onto you which can be good. Leaving the house without a major calorie intake is not something I would ever have done un-coerced and I actually found it quite helpful. Keeping a balanced energy level through the day is a problem to me (just read some code I churn out during a low blood sugar phase) and maybe my eat lots approach is not helping.

So there we are - problems are just new opportunities when we think outside of the box (which is the correct font for irony?Arial BS?).