JET LAG
STEVESCOOTS
For 18 years, changing time zones every three to four weeks (+/- eight hours) was no problem. My miracle cures used to range from having one too many drinks after landing and then sleeping for 12 hours, to the occasional swig of Night Nurse (now banned!) to ploughing through as if I was 18 again.
Like baldness, it gets worse with age, and I have found it much harder to get over jet lag in two or three days like I used to before the Covid-19 pandemic, which coincided (just before the shutdown of travel) with my 50th birthday.
So, as many of us are now getting back to our old travel schedules, are any of the senior statesmen and women here finding it harder to overcome? And what are you doing to try and deal with it? Maybe it's just the eye-watering fares that are now keeping us awake…
CWOODWARD
These days if it's a long-haul trip I try to arrive on a Friday evening or Saturday morning and have a “light” weekend in all respects.
If this is not possible then I
