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  1. Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]

    Thank you, Kirsten!

    When I'm away, you take care. I'll be hunting for updates from you on my occasional trips to the site in the next 2 and a half weeks!

    promise I'll do
    you make sure to not go online too much -- enjoy real life abroad as much as you can
  2. Originally posted by MacStripey:side note: kicked the ugly away shirt from the basket (the evil shop window just popped up again out of the blue, what could i do ), now the price looks much nicer than before *clicks order button*
    *feels this quick kick of happiness*

    heh


  3. Haha, yes. I'll try not to!

  5. I went to Dominican Republic in 2006 and suffered jetlag for 2 or 3 good days, like Kirsten. No no not nice. Glad you didn't suffer it And crossing fingers for you too


    Anyway, you do know the solution for jet-lag, don't you?

  6. What's jetlag actually like?

    And, that woman in the middle just cracked me up! HAHA!
  7. It's like "oh, it's 11 PM, let's go to sleep", and sleep laughs in your face while jumps off the window.
    And then "oh, 11 AM, let's make this day worzzzZZZzzzZZZ "
  8. I haven't travelled anywhere to suffer jetlag, but Wikipedia says:

    The first scenario is equivalent to staying up all night and going to bed at 6 a.m. the next day—8 hours later than usual. But the second scenario (eastward) is equivalent to staying up all night and going to bed at 2 p.m. the next day—14 hours after the time one would otherwise have gone to bed.

    Now, I suffer from travel sickness (not nice) - but only seem to do it within the first few hours of waking up, so when we flew to Menorca, I thought I'd just not risk going to bed, waking up at 3am to leave at 7am. Particularly as a first time flyer. So, I stayed up all night. Woke up at 10am on Thursday and went to bed around 1am on Saturday. Flew out at 7am Friday. Didn't really bother me at all, I get to a point when I get really tired, but then I soon wake up. So, I think I might be alright with the jetlag lark.

    All four times that I've flown, I've not slept that night before and gone to bed at a normal time for me after landing. I could easily do that "14 hours after the time one would otherwise have gone to bed".
  9. That sounds horrid.

    I have a feeling that I may get jetlag this time because I arrive back in Edinburgh at 8am and I leave Florida at 3pm their time. So it's pretty much a full day of travelling.

    Tim, I suffer from travel sickness - particuarly on boats and sometimes cars. It can occur on trains and buses too though. Planes, I'm usually alright with. Although, I have problems when I fly: I can't sleep and I can't eat. I don't know why that is. When I do sleep, I only sleep for 20 minutes then I can't get back to sleep again. It's because the travel sickness pills make me drowsy.
  10. I gave up on travel sickness pills, probably because I had them when I was younger and they were supposed to be strawberry flavour ones that you chew. Made me feel worse.

    I suffer mainly in cars and buses/coaches. I'm happy to be sick in someone's car, or out of the window if I'm quick, but I will absolutely not risk it on public transport. I felt sick on an early train once, but we hit a signal failure and were sitting on the tracks for 20 minutes, so it subsided. But I was definitely ready to go to the toilet

    And I assumed it would carry over to planes, so just took the 'safer' option for me and didn't go to sleep. I don't know why it only occurs in the first 3-4 hours after sleeping. But I'd rather be safe than covered in sick.
  11. Originally posted by KieranU2:I have a feeling that I may get jetlag this time because I arrive back in Edinburgh at 8am and I leave Florida at 3pm their time. So it's pretty much a full day of travelling.

    There you are That's the situation when you get it

  12. Sorry to hear about your travel sickness, Kieran and Tim
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