In a warm bathroom, a damp Tibetan Terrier stands on a non-slip mat in a shallow bath, happily licking a lick mat stuck to the tiles, while a white man in his thirties with a red beard kneels beside the bath and pours water gently over his shoulders from a jug.

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The Hotel Shower

Every hotel shower is a small test of nerve. You climb over the side of a bath as slippery as soap. There’s one dial, no markings, and a shower head that coughs, roars, then runs like melted snow, then a kettle, while you feel for a rail that isn’t there.

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