3 “simple” rules to avoid jet-lag ✈

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    TheLB

    I want to share my three rules with you to avoid jet-lag and better start my time in a faraway land. The more you will follow the rules, the quicker you recover from your trip and the time difference. Of course, as always, I speak out of my own experience in nearly 10 years travelling and many international flights – and all the mistakes I made along the way. 🙈
     
     
    Rule number 1:
     
    Arrive at the destination at an optimal time. 
     
    I know, it may sound obvious, but it is not, this detail is often underestimated and often regretted.  Many believe that the time you depart is the most important one. Well, let me tell you that this is not the case. When you reach your destination, you are often a place where you are not familiar with. What if you arrive there late in the evening? No public transport to go to your hotel, no reliable taxi and only some non-so-reliable individuals who offer you “private taxi” for three times the price. (Trust me, it happens). What if instead, you arrive around lunchtime? Everything at the airport is fully functional and full of people that can help you with direction, or you may be able to share a taxi with? – I met quite a few friends this way – I usually recommend arriving during the day in the new destination, and not caring too much what time you depart from home. Come on, you know your “home airport”, you know your language, and you know where to go. My personal favourite time for arrival is between 11:00 to 14:00. It’s the perfect time for check-in in the hotel, and you have the full day to enjoy the city! It will mostly allow starting your vacation stress-free, and you will be able to choose what time to go to bed. 
     
    Rule number 2:
     

    Avoid taking a nap. 

    Once you check-in, leave your luggage and go around the city; do not come back before dinner. Avoid, at all cost, taking a nap. This is the most important rule! I have countless examples that I could give of waste days sleeping while life was happening just outside my hotel room. 

    Listen, it does not matter how tired you feel. Wash your face, dress up. No! Do not sit… go out for a walk. You will feel much better once you immerse yourself in the new city you decided to spend some time in. If you wanted to sleep, you could have slept simply at home. Right? Avoid naps! The time to sleep arrives soon enough; in fact, it is the 3rd rule. 

    Rule number 3:

    Go to sleep early in the evening after a nice shower. 

    You may be tempted to go out partying on your very first night, and I am the last one who tells you not to. However, if you are serious in syncing your sleeping schedule with the new time zone, you are better to have a shower after dinner, lay down on your nice bed and let nature due its course. You will sleep like a baby and wake up on time for breakfast, fully charged and ready to rock your time in a foreign land. This is what happened when I did not follow this rule

    If you don’t follow these 3 “simple” steps, nothing will really happen to you. Nothing is better than sleep while all your friends are having a good time and being awake around the hotel talking to the night cleaner. Poor guy, he chose that job to be alone, and you are there annoying him 😅😂  Jokes aside, jet-lag may seriously take a toll on your “holiday-health” and consequently to the memory you will have of that place. Which is sad! Trust me on these three rules… try them and let me know if they work for you too. 

    P.S. 

    Do you know that uncle who always tells how much he hated that place far away he went for a holiday a few years ago? Does it hate the place because he was jet-lagged till the last day of vacation? Well, next Christmas dinner you should ask him if he broke any of my rules.  Trust me, they work! 😉 

     
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    With gratitude, TheLucaBonafede

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