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  1. What's jetlag actually like?

    And, that woman in the middle just cracked me up! HAHA!
  2. 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 "
  3. 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".
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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

  7. Sorry to hear about your travel sickness, Kieran and Tim
  8. Although, that was pretty much the same situation the last time I went to America and I never got jetlag... You never know, could happen this time. Going for the hat-trick this time!

    Ah, I had similar travel sickness tablets which made me feel sick as soon as I took them, then made me feel terrible later on. Even the thought of them make me feel a little sick.
  9. Well, I was destroyed flying from Dominican Republic; departure at 18:00 local time, we arrived to Madrid at 11:30 more or so. And I was... well, destroyed. Moreover I was too young by then, and i couldn't party hard to get rid of it... so it was terrible. Let's hope it doesn't happen to you


    Mercury seems pretty stable at 23ºC and I doubt it'll go much lower, so it's time to go to bed. See you all tomorrow or whenever Much love to all
  10. Originally posted by KieranU2:Ah, I had similar travel sickness tablets which made me feel sick as soon as I took them, then made me feel terrible later on. Even the thought of them make me feel a little sick.


    Yeah, those were the work of the devil. Horrible.

    Goodnight Sergio
  11. Thank you for your consideration!

    See you later, Sergio! I'm off myself – absolutely knackered!

    Good night all
  12. Goodnight
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