The real fun starts with naps. You land at the airport, exhausted from the three-hour flight. You check into your hotel, flop onto the bed, and think, “I’ll just rest my eyes for 20 minutes.” Your body, still on UK time, decides that 20 minutes is actually four hours. Suddenly, it’s 8pm local time, you’ve missed dinner, and you’re wide awake at midnight. Welcome to the holiday bubble.
I once had a mate who swore by “staying on UK time” for the whole trip. He’d eat dinner at 5pm local time (4pm UK time) and claim it was “efficient.” The rest of us would be ordering cocktails at 9pm, and he’d be in bed, snoring. All because of one hour. We still tease him about it.
The Phone Notification Trap
Your smartphone is a traitor. It updates the time automatically, which is great for accuracy but terrible for your sense of reality. You’ll be walking along the promenade, snap a photo, and WhatsApp it to your mum. She replies instantly, “Beautiful! Is it late there?” And you have to do a double-take at the screen. Is it 2pm or 3pm? Who even knows anymore?
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Then there’s the joy of calling your boss. You think you’re being clever by calling at “10am your time, which is 9am UK time.” But your boss hasn’t even had their first coffee. You’ve just interrupted a grumpy silence. Sorry, boss.
