Top 3 rules for your first night in an eastern city
Ignore these at your peril.
- Iron all your wrinkled clothes—because you don’t want to have to iron when all you really want is hit snooze one more time
- Get to bed by 10:00—do whatever you have to do in order to sleep
- Take a shower as the first thing you do after waking the next morning—before anything else
Wise words. But exhaustion and a day spent in airports make for damnable enticements to hit the bed the minute you walk in your hotel room.
Here’s hoping your travels in 2008 are far-from-perilous.