DAYS 19 TO 21: MARRAKECH, MOROCCO

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL loved this crazy city (the flight from Petra is six hours and 40 minutes), saying it was ‘simply the nicest place on Earth to spend an afternoon’. You’ve got just 48 hours to be entertained by snake charmers and bamboozled into buying stuff you don’t need from persistent traders.

Hopefully, you haven’t fallen out with too many in your group and you’ll be nicely cocooned in La Mamounia, one of the most famous hotels in the world. If you tire of the souks, go trekking in the foothills of the Atlas mountains. On Day 22 you fly back to Florida — or enjoy a cheese and ham toastie on a £29 Easyjet flight from Marrakech to Luton as a welcome back to the real world.