Packing for a perfect holiday

Most women return from holiday with a suitcase of clothes they haven't worn. With airlines todya chairging more and more for checked luggage, learing to pack light is the order of the day, and with hand luggage only, think of the extra time you'll save when you arrive at your destination.

Packing rules

• Pack as few clothes as possible
• Wear your heavier shoes/boots/coat
• Decent your toiletries in to travel-seized plastic bottles
• Minimize your make-up bag. You do not need 10 lipsticks and eye shadows.
• Wear your valuable jewellery and keep the custome jewellery light.
• One perfume only.
• Don't go over the top with underwear - it can be washed overnight
• Ensure that your traveling handbag is large enough to carry your document and essentials, and put a pouch inside it that will double up as your evening bag.

Your Travelling Wardrobe

List out every day of your trip, and for each day write down what you might be doing (lunch, sightseeing, sporting activity or just relaxing). For each of these, make a note of what you are likely to wear. This will demonstrate that indeed you can wear the same pair of trousers twice, and therefore how little you need to pack.

• Following your list, lay all the clothes out on the bed and see how they co-ordinate with each other. There is no point in taking the little red sparkly top 'just in case' if you do not pack something to go with it.
• Keep the colours you take to minimum. Your trousers and jacket should be neutral shades which with everything else.
• If you have forgotten something, have fun and buy it locally! You need to leave some space in our suitcase for everything you may want to bring back.