Many hotels now offer high-speed internet access in rooms ” handy for the business traveller ” but careful there, because apparently checking emails before bed is the cyber equivalent to ”drinking a double espresso”.
”Work-related stress is one of the major factors when it comes to sleeping at night, with the average Brit suffering 55 nights of poor quality sleep a year,” warns Dr Chris Idzikowski, of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre.
”It”s even more important when away on business that you avoid heavy use of word-related electronic equipment at least one hour before bed to avoid having the next day”s meeting racing through your head until the early hours.”
Anyway, the good doctor has come up with a formula for deep sleep involving quiet, complete darkness, a comfy bed, and no TV or caffeine- virtual or otherwise: Q+CD+CT+CCB+DE-EDU1-LNE-TV-C-A=Zzz.
It lacks the refined beauty of E=mc2 (heavy use of word-related understatement), and originality, but it might be relatively useful”