On holiday last year, especially in Italy, I was eaten by mosquitoes and in itchy agony so this year I smeared myself in the excellent Boots generic Soltan which is a suntan/after sun lotion (not sticky and horrid smelling like most repellants) which contains repellant; worked very well except once when I forgot to put it on in Rome and was instantly bitten.

I spent much of the holiday gazing at bare legs ("pervert" - CPS) - I have never seen so many bites - children, old people, men, women... in Cannes it was like an epidemic. Now I read in The Sun that there is indeed an epidemic - bites 15% more than last year.

The After Sun contains aloe vera ("Allo Vera!") and is very soothing - rare in a repellant; I buy a huge industrial size one and use up every single drop!

Just popped into my local Boots and they were down to their last "industrial size" After Sun with insect repellant ("they are going like crazy" they said).