2. In your efforts to pack light you seem to have left out any attire that a) looks good on you, and b) works with anything else in your suit case. Don't panic. Wear your one piece as a bodysuit and slide into your jeans. Then add stacks of jewelery for a look that says "I'm too cool to care."
3. You want to be able to walk for miles (just in case you feel like, you know, taking a run or something)but your running shoes don't go with much else. If you only do one thing before your trip, find a pair of shoes that are pretty and comfy. By all means pack your gym shoes. Then wear them ONLY in the hotel gym.
4. Between all of those beauty minis, holiday-appropriate make-up and books bought at the airport shop (such is your prolific reading speed, you'll surely get through the first three novels in no time and will need back-ups), you've spent at least three days budget before you even arrive. Consequently, you can't afford to book into the hotel's world class day spa and instead, you stay by the pool reading (but look pretty doing it). Sadly, no one can see just how pretty, because they're all off getting massages.
5. Here's the thing about beach hair. In your dreams (and coincidently on Giesele), it's relaxed and wavy and laid-back. In reality, a day spent lazing on the sand in the salty air is likely to make your locks look more straggly then those of a teenage surfer kid whose allergic to a hair brush and is praying desperately for dreads. Enlist the help of a good quality salt spray like Wella High Hair Ocean Sprizz.
6. Yes you had thought that this years holiday would be spent performing dawn salutes to the sun, converting to veganisim and shooting wheat grass but instead you've been sampling the local produces as if it were water. And here's the unfortunate truth about alcohol: dehydration - not to mention slurping endlessly fruity cocktails - makes you bloat. Drink two litres of the pure stuff daily.
7. Just so you know, Pringles don't count as breakfast food, there's no such thing as a dessert's dessert and if your drink more then one can of coke a day it's called a problem. But we see the appeal. Since you never know where your next meal is coming from, you're eating as if each could be your last and have consumed more snack foods that a group of 13-year olds at a pyjama party. This stuff (while tasty) can leave your complexion resembling said 13-year olds. Pack a spot treatment and pop till you can't stop.
8. In your attempt to be "organized" you purchased travel sizes of all your toiletry essentials, only to have them run out half way through, after which your are forced to use his no-name versions and the hotel body-lotion. Pack enough- its worth the excess baggage.
9. Your hotel may come with a fully-stocked mini bar but it's not assured that you'll be provided with a top-to-toe reflection. Take your holiday outfits through a dress rehearsal before you go.
10. Despite a concerted effort to pack items ordinarily crease-free, you're still walking around looking as if you've slept in them. Pack everything you can find in jersey, which doesn't wrinkle, even if you do sleep in it. And forget about linen.
More to come, x
