This stuff – the music which was coming out of chic London discotheques when The Bravery were still in their cribs – is the current soundtrack of choice for the alienated-early twentysomething blues.”This country fucking rules,” says Endicott, overwhelmed by end-of-tour emotion, before adding the crowd-pleasing information that Conway’s father was born in Manchester. With judicious buying, you could make it there and back for around £100.STAYING THERERyad Mabrouka, pictured below, (00 212 55 63 63 45; ) has doubles from 900 Dirhams (£57).Riad Lune et Soleil (00 212 55 63 45 23; ) has doubles from 650 Dirhams (£41).Riad Zamane (00 212 55 74 04 40; ) has doubles from 1000 Dirhams (£63).Riad Sheherazade (00 212 55 74 16 42; ) has doubles from 1260 Dirhams (£80).All these rates include breakfast.FURTHER INFORMATIONMoroccan National Tourist Office (020-7437 0073; ).. Naturally, I am wearing totally inappropriate shoes, which I have to remove in order to climb the steep, tiled staircase. It’s too dark to see properly, but I can feel a fine layer of cedar sawdust underfoot.Temporary lights illuminate the corners as we round the mezzanine balcony with its carved wooden balustrade. Straining my eyes to see the blue and green of the traditional Islamic tile patterns (always flowers and plants; never animal or human figures), I think to myself this is rather like that romantic scene from The English Patient in which a character is swung aloft with a blazing torch in her hand to examine the frescoes inside a dark church…It’s back to earth with a bump, though, when I realise I’m actually being treated to a detailed lecture about the building materials used to make this house.

It really is a night on the tiles.The inner walls, I learn, are brick, fixed not with cement but with a mixture of sand and lime (which allows them to “breathe” and to expand in this hot climate), then covered in tiles. The country desperately needs money but there are fears among many people that the oil is going to bring an influx of Americans, Nigerians and tourists to the island that we just cannot cope with at the moment.”It’s conjecture right now as to whether S?Tom?own’s ramshackle charm is going to be gentrified by business hotels and Texans in stetsons in the next few years. The palace was built for King Rama I and is typically Thai with pointed roofs and magnificent carved wood panels. Thais are also crazy about children, so they are sure to lavish attention on yours wherever you go.The first stop on your historical itinerary should be the Grand Palace (00 66 2 6235500; ), Thanon Na Phra Lan, and the Temple of Wat Phra Kaew, both in a compound on Rattanakosin Island. It’s so beautiful you can’t believe it’s a real place where people actually live The residents also appreciate their city. There’s a real sense of enjoying life and I like the hours that they keep.

Their lifestyle is one that people should aspire to.Where next?Sheffield for work.The actress Emilia Fox is a guardian angel for the Angels Against Addiction Campaign, which was launched by Action on Addiction (020-7793 1011; ). I was arrested and kept in a back room at the airport with armed guards.Worst holiday?A school holiday to Switzerland. I have horrible memories of it, because I was with girls that I didn’t know. It was probably the loneliest holiday I have ever been on, because everyone disappeared and got drunk and I was left on my own.Worst hotel? The Metro Hotel in New York.