Scotch tape, Kleenex, post- it notes and motrin. how did we ever live without them!!!!!

A 50mg Halcion, three beers, and four or five Bailey's and it's good night Dulles, hello Milan (or Munich, London, who cares?)

StCirq, that's a great advice. What a pity, I was in Paris around the Memorial Days and had huge problems with legs. <BR>If I only knew. French pharmacies are like museum to me - I love wondering there, and also buying stuff, cheaper and healthier than in DS. <BR>I actually opened this part of Fodor's site after booking the hotel in Paris I haven't enjoy at all. I came here in search of an advice for another hotel, and stayed. Now I virtually live here. <BR>StCirq, you mentioned salmon oil pils for cholesterol. ??? what is it, please advise.

Elvira, you and I are identical, right down to the authors we read and the length of time we stay awake.

Larisa: <BR> <BR>They are little capsules full of salmon oil, as in oil from the fish. The theory is that certain fish, salmon among them, have lots of the "good cholesterol" in them. It's not a substitute for Lipitor, probably, but it can't hurt, either.

In my preparation to the upcoming trip I went to the shopping round today and came home with special support hosiery for flights for me and my husband, homeopatic Chestnut Extract prepared in Switzerland by the very famous company Vogel, (it is ironic because we are flying there, but I will buy more if the price is better), OTC sleeping pills, which the pharmacist actually got somewhere under the counter. <BR>I want to thank every participant of this thread, your tips are invaluable.

I can't believe none of you do this....Have you tried walking up and down the aisle flaunting your Fodor's pin? Don't you get the pilot to ask "How many fodorites do we have on this plane?" Well, it is a total blast... travel will take on new dimensions and you will make all sorts of new friends. Just be careful they don't follow you off the plane.

Larisa <BR> <BR>where did you get the chestnut oil, capsules I'm assuming. Iwant to try them,before I get to france this year. The legs and feet have been giving out lately!! All we have here that I can thinkof is a GNC or a chamberlain's. I think it's probably the same as St.Cirq's marrons de'Indres. Wish it was just from eating french chestnuts , I have cupboards full of those, my favorite food and the one thing I always bring home from france or england

I enter the Mile High Club.

JOdy, please mail me with your address and I would provide the specifics. <BR>Don't want to consume the time of those lucky people for which walking in the aisle and joining the mile club solves the problem. I wish it could worked for me, well, the first one solution, I don't think I am ready for the second. <BR>

HI, <BR>While I don't let it stop me from travelling, I am an uneasy flier. I spend the flight mentally keeping the plane in the air! As you can imagine it is exhausing work! <BR> <BR>Patti

I'm joining the anti-sleeping pill club after this last weekend's adventures. LA to NYC red eye, everybody drugged out of their minds, and the plane goes back to LA because of mechanical problems and everybody's gotta get off and get on another plane. What a bunch of groggy, drooling and otherwise messed up people we were. That was beyond miserable. I can't imagine what it would feel like halfway to Europe and find out that we were landing in Greenland because of problems and I had to try to rouse my drugged out self enough to be coherent. (and let's not even think about a legitimate emergency...)

Excellent point, Janice!