The first half hour is deliberately uneventful and about one person in five finds that alarming.

Tea, something on in the background, a conversation about the drive. Somewhere inside it people begin wondering whether they have misunderstood what was arranged. They have not.

What that stretch does is remove the performance, and there is no way to reach the part after it without going through it. It cannot be shortened by wanting it shortened, which is the thing most often tried.

Thai, 25, Bur Dubai. In only. 800.