Email sent to our administration, regarding travel reimbursement for a trip in which I had to spend the night in Delhi due to a missed flight connection, but still paid the hotel fee for the night in Ahmadabad:
"I definitely spent the night in India, and paid a hotel fee for that night. Given we reimburse at a standard rate, do the details matter?"
Logical? Yes.
Are the details the life blood of academic travel reimbursement and I've just questioned the ethos of a whole culture: Also, yes