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How do I travel with a toddler?

Yes. Ohh, yes.

Sadly, the only thing harder than dealing with an energetic toddler when you’re jet-lagged is dealing with a toddler when you’re both jet-lagged. (It’s pretty hard to explain to a 2-year-old, ‘No, but we need to go to sleep now so our body clocks get used to local time.’)

Still, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some solutions to your dilemma. Here’s a few tips to get you started:

Take a night flight. Obvious enough, this one. If your toddler is spending the majority of a 13- hour flight on a crowded, bright plane with lots of chatter and activity, they’re going to be full of beans and they’re going to struggle to sleep - which means you’re both going to be exhausted by the time you arrive.

Even if it knocks a few hundred quid off the price to set out at 9am, don’t be tempted. Book your flight for late-ish, then get the little one settled in a dark and peaceful cabin to sleep through the night.

See the light. As Scientific American points out, it’s easiest to trick our bodies’ circadian rhythms into adapting quickly if we control our exposure to light and darkness. (As a parent, you’ll no doubt be doing this already in your day-to-day - settling your toddler into a push-chair with the hood down when it’s time for them to nap, for example.)

This means you can minimise jet lag for you and your toddler once you arrive by establishing a pattern of absolute darkness when they need to be sleeping - maybe check in with your accommodation to see if they have blackout blinds - and plenty of direct exposure to sunlight during the first few hours when it’s time to wake up.

In other words, make sure you and your toddler are getting out and about in the sunshine of Singapore’s beautiful parks nice and early in the morning, even if you’re feeling exhausted (if you just can’t face it, consider a portable wake-up light in your hotel room) to help you adjust as quickly as possible.

You can't really get sick of seeing the Gardens by the Bay, now, can you?

Sleepopolis can help you with this - it’s a free online calculator which will generate a simple sleep programme for you, setting out the hours when you ideally need to be getting plenty of light exposure.

Plan ahead. Some - but not all - parents swear by partially adjusting their children’s sleep schedules about a week in advance, changing up bedtimes by one hour per day, to ease them into the new timezone.

If you don’t want to take that step (and disturbing your two-year-old’s routine might, understandably, not be something you want to commit to while also struggling to pack) then think about anything else you usually do to help establish a disciplined routine - reading before bed, a particular toy or item, a sleep-training or OK-to-wake clock.

Make a list, get it all ready in advance, and make sure it comes with you in the carry-on luggage!

Consider a stopover. Understandably, you might just want to get to your destination and be done with travel.

But a couple of days spent in a connecting country will ensure that you and your toddler are dealing with two relatively manageable local time differences, instead of a whopping great eight-hour time difference (i.e. an entire night’s sleep).

That extra time at a midway point gives you a chance to get some of the exhaustion out of the way and take a breath before you hit your final destination (here’s some great advice on what you can see during a 24-hour stopover in Abu Dhabi or Dubai), but it should also knock a bit of money on the total cost of your flights compared to a direct London-Singapore plane.

There are also, frankly, worse places to recuperate than at the pool in one of Abu Dhabi's kid-friendly hotels.

Optional: Get a bit of help. As we’ve said, you should definitely be aiming to get out into the sunshine in the mornings.

But if you think you need a couple of hours to stare blankly into thin air while nursing a coffee, many of Singapore’s biggest hotels do come with a babysitting service or a kids' club (you’ll usually need to give them 24 hours’ notice).

You could also look at a reputable independent agency in the city, like NannySOS, which will come to your hotel and watch your little one for £15 per hour, or come and meet you outside for a rate of £21 per hour.

Good luck and hope you both have a wonderful trip!

Wheelchair support in airports

You absolutely can still get that support, reader - in fact, as per the Civil Aviation Authority, you and your husband are legally entitled to it from the first moment you arrive at the airport. No amount of travel chaos (or unscrupulous individuals on TikTok!) should ever change that.

Please do let your airline know your needs ASAP and they should be able to help arrange everything for you. Hopefully you won't experience any issues, but if there are any problems, you can raise a formal complaint.

Safe and happy travels to you both!

Seeing the Big Apple solo

Sounds like an epic adventure, reader! Well, there’s plenty of blogs out there that offer suggested itineraries and sights for a solo traveller in NYC (Adventurous Kate has a particularly good one that goes beyond the obvious tourist mega-spots and offers a range of recommendations for friendly and bustling restaurants where you can happily eat alone without feeling uncomfortable).

But to get the inside scoop, we’d also spend some time trawling social media to get up-to-date tips from the New York locals.

In between the usual grumblings about street garbage, pizza, and cab drivers, r/AskNYC on Reddit has a variety of inside tips from local New Yorkers about fun and exciting activities to do alone.

And when it comes to things like eating or taking photos, you could check out r/solotravel, which is chock full of advice and suggestions for navigating those odd or awkward little moments that come up when you’re travelling alone - including how to ensure that you’re coming away with good selfies.

For an alternative way of solving that particular problem, though, simply head to Meetup and sign up for one of the city’s many, many free walking groups for an afternoon. That way you can see NYC’s sights on foot and simply ask one of your fellow walkers to take a photo of you, rather than bothering a total stranger (and afterwards, you can do the same for them).

Beyond all of that, spend a good bit of time on live event research - check out the NYC calendars on Time Out, the top recs in NYMag, the festivals of iloveny, and Central Park's concert schedule, as well as the newest restaurant and bar reviews on Infatuation.

The city is always changing, and there’s an absurd number of fun and inventive experiences to keep a solo traveller busy, especially in the summer - from movie nights in the park or Nowadays’ poetry open mic parties and DJ sets, to opera performances on the stoop, it’s all there. It just depends on what you enjoy doing!

Always make sure you’re checking the article date, though: a lot of international travel websites are pretty horribly out-of-date when it comes to bars in New York, and you don’t want to schlep across town on the subway only to find yourself staring at a ‘Closed’ sign.

And finally, when it comes to safety, Trivago has some sensible and straightforward tips, but it’s about what you’d expect - don’t get in an unmarked cab, keep your eyes on your belongings, etc. Meanwhile, Your Brooklyn Guide has an up-to-date list of commonly encountered scams: beware the ‘Broken Glasses Guy’ who yells at you that you’ve jostled him and damaged his spectacles.

But the really important thing is...you're going to have an amazing time. Enjoy yourself, take plenty of pictures, and send us a postcard!

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Our Pick of the Clicks

All the important (or silly, or strange) travel news from across the web this week.

Pancake-makers and potato-peelers: Guardian readers are revealing the odd items that they always take with them on holiday - Alan, who always packs his own shower head to ensure an optimal water flow, might just be our hero.

It's more affordable abroad: The Mirror is calling it a ‘life hack’, but this cost-of-living story about one influencer who can survive more cheaply on a package holiday than at home in the UK…is more than a little worrying.

Work exspheriensh (hic): Majestic Wine is offering a three-day ‘vinternship’ for one lucky pair of friends to go and drink wine in the Iberian Peninsula - flights, accommodation, food and wine (obviously), and a £200 per diem all included.

Supposedly it’s all an experiment to ‘determine if wine really tastes better in its country of origin.’ Interesting stuff, Majestic, but if you want to be genuinely scientific about this, you’re going to also need your vintern to taste wine in Australia, Argentina, New Zealand…the list goes on.

We can make space in our diaries if we have to.

Guilty. We've sadly seen a big increase in reports of aggressive, obnoxious or anti-social behaviour on flights over the past couple of weeks, including one that involves (we're not making this up, we promise) Lee Ryan from Blue.

Ryan's representatives have yet to comment on his alleged mid-flight behaviour - which makes sense, what with sorry being the hardest word and all.

Some urgent news from Devon, where we regret to report that a pony mayor has just been banned from a pub.

Thanks for reading!