re: Jet Lag Strategies

quote:

---

I may try nap when I land (late morning).

---

Please, don't. I did that after my fam landed in Spain many decades ago, while they went out to do stuff, and I was for certain, the most unadjusted person in my family for DAYS, including my sub 10 year old sisters. Not helped by the Spanish tendency to not eat dinner until 10PM, for sure, but no. When you've done international travel for that many hours, you will sleep through phone alarms, wake up calls, the lot. Or, you'll wake up and take a leak and swear you're going to go out for a coffee and find yourself in bed, waking up at 1AM.

You didn't mention whether you were staying in the Northern Hemisphere. To me, it's much less painful going east or west than heading to somewhere like Chile based on the flight times.

Light exposure for most is more important than food. You're exposed to darkness for hours of your northern hemisphere flight (due to blinds being closed, usually.) Like I said earlier, if it's 9AM in Amsterdam as you've starting to descend over England for breakfast, hit the coffee, open your blinds, resolve yourself to suck it up and make plans to be *out* of your hotel until such point you get to nearly dark local time.