Watching You
05-09-2008, 15:59
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I saw this message at the top of my screen and thought to myself now what could I add of interest.
Recently I had to travel to Australia and New Zealand for work for a couple of weeks in August. Because Australia is currently 9 hours ahead of GMT, (if I am still correct) In order to beat jet lag I did, what I have been doing for the last fifteen odd years and calculated that I adjust my body clock to my time zone.
My method is - That I actually read about in a Newspaper Supplement:
If I am going to the east, to 9 hours I allow twelve days beforehand, (one day (24hours) for every hour to adjust) I start waking up approximately 30, 45, 1 hour earlier to reset my body clock. The flip side is that I also have to get to bed earlier each night, which is not that easy. So on the day I was leaving, I went to bed at 6pm and up at 1am. On top of this you need to adjust your eating habits so that you do not eat close to the time you are trying to rest.
It’s boring because you are limited to what you can actually do at 2am, but fortunately this is one of the few times when I can seriously catch a lot of television, and thanks to the V+ box and BBC iplayer I do not miss many of my favourite shows. However, I have to be careful not to wake the whole house, so I watch TV with headphones.
Ideally I would have preferred to have gone to Australia and NZ during their summers, (during our winter) but unfortunately most Australians tend to take their holidays during this time and its quiet then.
However, what I found strange was the amount of people from here (UK) who travel down-under without obviously checking the weather in advance, dressed in shorts, t-shirts and flip flops (honestly). It was 10 degrees when I arrived in Sydney on Sunday 3rd August. After a full day of travelling it feels a lot colder. But I find it strange that people were caught out like this although when I left we just had the two weeks of summer in the UK. Apparently this is a common problem according to someone at my hotel that sees this every year. I wonder if any Aussies travel here dressed the same way in February??
Anyone have any other good tips for beating jet lag??
I saw this message at the top of my screen and thought to myself now what could I add of interest.
Recently I had to travel to Australia and New Zealand for work for a couple of weeks in August. Because Australia is currently 9 hours ahead of GMT, (if I am still correct) In order to beat jet lag I did, what I have been doing for the last fifteen odd years and calculated that I adjust my body clock to my time zone.
My method is - That I actually read about in a Newspaper Supplement:
If I am going to the east, to 9 hours I allow twelve days beforehand, (one day (24hours) for every hour to adjust) I start waking up approximately 30, 45, 1 hour earlier to reset my body clock. The flip side is that I also have to get to bed earlier each night, which is not that easy. So on the day I was leaving, I went to bed at 6pm and up at 1am. On top of this you need to adjust your eating habits so that you do not eat close to the time you are trying to rest.
It’s boring because you are limited to what you can actually do at 2am, but fortunately this is one of the few times when I can seriously catch a lot of television, and thanks to the V+ box and BBC iplayer I do not miss many of my favourite shows. However, I have to be careful not to wake the whole house, so I watch TV with headphones.
Ideally I would have preferred to have gone to Australia and NZ during their summers, (during our winter) but unfortunately most Australians tend to take their holidays during this time and its quiet then.
However, what I found strange was the amount of people from here (UK) who travel down-under without obviously checking the weather in advance, dressed in shorts, t-shirts and flip flops (honestly). It was 10 degrees when I arrived in Sydney on Sunday 3rd August. After a full day of travelling it feels a lot colder. But I find it strange that people were caught out like this although when I left we just had the two weeks of summer in the UK. Apparently this is a common problem according to someone at my hotel that sees this every year. I wonder if any Aussies travel here dressed the same way in February??
Anyone have any other good tips for beating jet lag??