Blott, many thanks for the advice, and prompt too ! The trouble is, we own the villa, and it is not clothes etc. that's the problem. It is all the things I have been buying for our home. I tend to buy little things here, when I see what I like, rather than waste precious 'holiday' time when I am there. Even doing it this way, we still spend masses of time in Home Depot and the like. I think we are just going to have to fork out for a taxi. Chloe