Nick Butler: An ANOC General Assembly, a first Beach Games...and a drag pageant

Nick Butler: An ANOC General Assembly, a first Beach Games...and a drag pageant

Working in your room may be quieter and less distracting, I have always been told, but it is far better to sit and work in a hotel lobby (wearing company branded clothing, of course) because people will come up and talk to you and provide you with extra crumbs of information.

Wise words, but advice we arguably took to extremes on Saturday night by stubbornly refusing to budge despite the entire hotel being taken over by what turned out to be the biggest annual drag queen pageant in Washington D.C.