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Luxury resort in Ojai helps get over jetlag

Harrods’ distinctive outline – on their shop at Heathrow

Harrods’ distinctive outline – on their shop at Heathrow

Well, the flight from London was long, like nearly 11 hours.  As always the shopping airside (after security) at Heathrow’s terminal five was abuzz.

The gal’s favourite store there is Itsu, run by Pret-a-Manger founder Julian Metcalfe, healthy-healthy avocado and seaweed and sticky rice salad.

You know her favourite lounge (British Airways’ Gold).  And the flight was made bearable by the airline’s lovely flat beds and its new Height Cuisine.

Stretching out aboard British Airways' nearly eleven-hour flight

Stretching out on the nearly eleven-hour flight

What was unbearable was the long-long immigration at Los Angeles, followed by the long-long line to pick up our Avis car.

That night, getting over jet lag was considerably helped by a couple of sips of NeuroSleep®, a drink put out by drinkneuro.com, one of the many companies founded by the East European blonde brain Diana Jenkins.

Sips of this really helped get over jetlag

Sips of this really helped get over jetlag

 

 

This drink – 35  calories in a 14.5 fluid ounce bottle – includes traces of L-theanine, Melatonin (not allowed in Germany or UK),  5-hydroxytryptophan, Taurine and Magnesium.

The following day, to Ojai, 90 minutes’ drive north-west of Los Angeles.

My spa locker at Ojai Spa was already personalised with a welcome note

My spa locker was already personalised with a welcome note

 

Ojai Valley Resort and Spa is 230 acres rolling landscape, lots of Spanish-type villas spread out around golf course, tennis, three (at least) pools, tennis, kids’ club and so on.

Headed down for the spa, wow, 28 treatment rooms, and in the VIP locker room, I found my designated locker already had a personalised welcome and a gift to-go.What a treat, as was Lanny’s superb Arcona treatment.

Heirloom tomato starter at Ojai

Heirloom tomato starter

Dinner started with a tasting of heirloom tomatoes and crispy fried artichoke, went on to slow-slow braised beef shortribs.

Veronica Cole by the Ojai Valley Resort gingerbread house and tree

Veronica Cole by the Ojai Valley Resort gingerbread house and tree

 

 

 

 

 

It was frosty in the morning, here at 675 feet above sea level.

I was waved off at the gingerbread house that fills the front of one of many of the real-log fires at the resort.