[Mezzosoprano]

I have a trip to Brisbane nearly every year to two years - I fell asleep in the middle of my mother in law's Birthday party one year. Face in the plate of cake... not a shining moment... but I digress.

I've found that what works for me is to set my watch to destination time when I get on the plane.... and try and keep to what you'd be doing normally at that time.... I never manage to do this down to the hour but it helps at the other end. The next thing is, as has already been said, drink plenty water and lay off the alcohol - you just get dehydrated. Thirdly, when you get off the plane, try and stick to local time, so, if its 0730 hrs at arrival, have your breakfast and try and go about a normal day - if it's 2200 hrs, go to bed. Even if you either have to have a nap in the middle of the day or are awake part of the night, it helps get you on track faster. Oh! and if you are going to have a nap in the middle of the day, set your alarm clock to wake you up in an hour or you'll do what I did the first time I travelled that far - fall asleep and wake up full of enegy at 3am in the morning - it took ages for me to get over the jet lag the first time....

Mezzo X

ps - I try not to advocate the murder of small children 'cos sometimes it's mine keeping everyone awake