Monday Back in the early noughties, I was a senior project manager in IT for a building company in York. As such, I was sent on various courses at software houses and computer companies. On this particular occasion, I was sent on a five-day course which was in Uxbridge, London, so I stayed in a typical business-style hotel, which was very comfortable but lacked any character, as most new hotels do. I enrolled on the cours...

Monday Back in the early noughties, I was a senior IT project manager for a food distribution company based in Plymouth. The role regularly saw me dispatched on training courses run by software vendors and computer companies. On this particular occasion, I was booked onto a five-day course in Uxbridge, west London, which meant spending the week in one of those anonymous business hotels—spotlessly clean, perfectly comforta...