A chic ashtray, candles, fluffy slippers… why I just can’t resist pilfering from hotels: CLARE FOGES

My career as an international thief began a quarter of a century ago, on a balmy afternoon in Morocco. A friend and I sat in the gardens of La Mamounia, one of the grandest hotels in the world, a five-star palace of marble and tinkling fountains that Winston Churchill rightly called ‘wonderful’.

Being skint 20-somethings, we were not staying at the hotel. Instead we dropped in for a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice that cost about as much as our flights. It was worth it.

Spindly palm trees soared against a cornflower blue sky. Doves swooped. We drank our orange juice

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