Possible Clues:

• Pots break on a journey
• Stay (of just one night?)
• Brief stay to check deliveries
• Trip break
• Pots break during trip?
• Break journey very briefly in poorest resort
• Pots required for bed and breakfast?
• Break in journey to sort post deliveries
• The way to work during break in journey
• Provost arranged, going round the Orient, break in his journey