Preparing for a holiday is the stressful as it is. There's getting your currency, making sure you're not a terror threat with over 100ml of hand cream in your hand luggage, and setting the god damn alarm for 4am to get your Ryanair flight to somewhere with no culture, but lots of sunshine and watered down mojitos. There's been a lot of controversy on being 'beach ready' recently, but it doesn't matter who you are, nobody looks forward to being half naked in front of a bunch of strangers and you may very well take some steps to make yourself feel a little bit more comfortable.
