I went to Ipswich once with the missus. We rented a room in what we thought was a hotel, but what in reality was a pub with a loud band right beneath the room we occupied. We were staying there because we were about to move into a new flat. We had all our belongings in storage. Ipswich is a nice place but that night it didn’t seem so nice.

To be honest, when we were in that room listening to heavy metal come through the ceiling (we couldn’t even watch TV) we thought we would have had a better night if we went and slept on our sofa in the storage Ipswich place. It just shows that you should find out about any hotels you are considering going to, so that you do not face the rather uncomfortable feeling of having an immense sound system pumping through the ceiling while you are trying to watch the latest episode of BBC1’s EastEnders – even those cockneys don’t have to put up with this.