Nuggets and $300 champagne … As you do

Travel’s funny. You find yourself halfway across the world in an old friend’s hotel room ordering chicken nuggets and fries from room service to accompany your freebie bottle of $300 vintage pink champagne (scored during some snafu on the plane) you’re sipping while you admire the personalized initials the hotel has sewn onto his pillowcase to make him feel more at home during his stay. And he tells you about the last time he was there when he forgot to mention his boyfriend was accompanying him and how mortified staff were that his pillow was blank … Queue frantic stitching while they were at dinner …