I’m taking a “jet lag recovery” day from work, and thinking about why I feel more woozy than I expected after this trip. Obviously the fact that I couldn’t sleep on the FRA-SEA leg didn’t help, but there’s more to it than that. ((UPDATE: Merry points out that my having been really sick on Tuesday could be a factor. Doh!!)) It occurs to me that this was my fourth visit to India, but on each of the previous occasions I stopped off in Europe for at least a day on the way back.

• In October 2005, I returned via England, and dropped in on the Tarantella team in Leeds.
• In January 2006, I flew to Frankfurt, backtracked to Prague, and visited Sun’s NetBeans group before flying on to Denver.
• And earlier this year I broke my journey in England and spent a day with my mother in Oxford. (Of course that last itinerary was westwards round-the-world, and I found it much less stressful.)

Worth thinking about for next time.