But every time MEPs drink a cup of Nespresso coffee they are sending more money to Nespresso and Nestlé than to dirt-poor coffee farmers who rely on the crop.
italrest.com, from $40 a night This is pretty much the definition of off-the-beaten-track perfection, at the end of a pot-holed lane that peters away into a dirt track overlooking a deserted cove.
It's a chance to lose yourself in the pleasures of childhood escapades - dirt, occasional nudity and malt loaf pit stops.
This must have rung false for audience members, who travel daily along Kampala's dirt roads, and many of whom live without access to basic amenities.
In the Favela do Moinho, the last favela standing in central São Paulo, the water supply of around 2,500 residents hangs on a single, impossibly slender blue PVC pipe that runs beneath the dirt on the nameless main drag.
"How close did the car go to your blanket?" He traces a rectangle, in the dirt, with his finger: "My blanket".
While I had spent most of my early days in the privileged surroundings of a British private school, she had been kicking empty tins of Foster's around the dirt roads of the Australian outback.
Related: The Brecon Beacons' Dark Sky Reserve: five ways to see it There are scores of places to stay, from dirt-cheap hostels to seriously luxurious hotels.
Did an early human draw a line in the dirt, then another one add a new line that intersected it?
You have to be strong to stay clean when you spend your whole day submerged in dirt," he said.
We didn't stay in one of them, obviously; we stayed down a dirt track in a new-build that charged €50 a night.
