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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One other tip - for a few days leading up to a trip to Europe, try to move your bedtime and wake up time earlier than usual.

It makes it easier to sleep on the flight and also helps with the time zone change.

We are going to Europe later this month and leaving on a Friday night flight.  I normally wake up between 5am and 6am.  In preparation for the trip, I will aim to wake up at 4am the Monday and Tuesday of that week, 3am the Wednesday and Thursday, and 2:30am the day of the departure.  It really does make a huge difference.  I have done this several times.[/quote]

I have tried this approach as well, I would just add it depends when/where you want to be a "zombie" - on your home side trying to work? or on the vacation side? For me its better to start my vacation as a zombie - because I can plan for more sleep. We do our best to plan for flight times that arrive later in the morning, drop the bags, wonder the city, early dinner and bed the first day. Get 12 hours of sleep and BLAM we are on location time. Its really only that first day that is draining. But spending 3 days getting up early at home and trying to do my job? It was a disaster - I couldn't function at the office, I couldn't function as a parent.  [/quote]

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