a Bloody Mary did the trick, and then a few pints of Guinness.

Bru

Dandelion and Burdock, stirred until it loses its fizz, on ice. If you can drink it in a really hot bath, you'll get rid of toxins as you go.
Avoid orange juice. Vitamin C may be good for you, but the citric acid will irritate your stomach.

pints of stout and the company of a "young one"

washed down with the world's favourite soft drink - Dr Pepper

the only sure fire cure for me seems to be not drinking in the first place. A(nother) sign of my age I guess...

Marmite on Toast
Lucozade Alert
Nurofen

Ideally in that order

A biology grad mate of mine worked out physiologically speaking the best be is a couple of harvey wallbangers and a bowl of chili is the perfect cure. I do agree though, that lying on the sofa takes a lot of beating.

And I would recommend the following (if you have to drink too much that is - must get the public health message in first!):

Two pints of water before you go to bed - put them by the side of the bed before you go out so you don't forget them.

400mg of ibuprofen (Nurofen) as you go to bed (not if you suffer from asthma though!)

150mg of ranitidine (Zantac) before bed if you suffer from reflux

Plenty of flat lemonade the next morning to get your sugar levels back up or a Dioralyte sachet if you can stand the taste

with lots of sugar stirred in (7 teaspoons per can) until its flat and a couple of painkillers. And bed for an hour.

take two Anadin Extra and drink two pints of water. Hangover avoided. It's worked for me for more than 20 years.

Pint glass: half Coke, half orange juice. Works like a dream, particularly if bolstered by a fried breakfast and ibruprofen.

Walk!

I read somewhere recently that fatty food has been shown to soak up the alcohol. So if you're hung over in the morning, it's got to be the breakfast fry up.

Personally I do the water/painkillers thing as suggested above. I've found that after particularly heavy sessions on school nights I feel ok in the morning, eat a normal (healthy) breakfast but by about 10.30am hit rock bottom: usually in the middle of a meeting.

Next time, I'm trying the fry up.

colate milk shake into which you have stirred a tablespoon of powdered cloves. Wash down 4 senekot, have a very hot bath and run round the block in a warm jumper 3 times.
This will guarantee a sense of perspective in that you will feel so much worse than you did to begin with.
Works every time.

works well apparently.

food and more food always works for me.

Don't get up again until you feel better. Not ideal on work-nights though.

...is to embrace the hangover. Enjoy it. I read somewhere that once you see the hangover as 'the best bit' of getting drunk then you defeat it. Enjoy the enhanced perception and awareness of movement it gives you. It's a different state of being, not necessarily a worse one.

Get yourself into this mindset, grow a pair, and then get to the bar.

later it will be pints of water and loads of food , have an awful feeling that i will not make the beer festival lined up for tomorrow

If you've got a hangover : nurofen, water, and the Boots re-hydration salts in more water. And a banana.

To avoid one, plenty water - glass for glass with wine if it's more than 2 glasses.

a fuzzy temples-centric one needs vintage champagne and even an oyster or two sharpened with Tabasco.

Whatever the strain - two things are ever-present - ice-cold coke with extra ice and a packet of Walker's Salt & Vinegar crips.

Hopefully, you are over the worst - but if symptoms remain until the evening - a hottish curry - like a King Prawn Dansak - works a treat.

I think the above quote was from someone like Frank Muir but my own overall tip would be to stick to the same booze all night i.e. if it's Fosters, then stick to Fosters all night. Yes, you will get the hangover but it will be nowhere near as bad as one that comes from a mixture.

Stella Artois and Steinlager seems to give me a hangover *as* I drink them, which is surely not on?

However, over the last year or so I have been pleasantly surprised on two occasions where I had a complete absence of hangover despite having beer/wine in excess. After really, really thinking about it - the constant between the two events was horseradish sauce on the meat. A friend of mine was at both events and had the same effect. Might be rubbish, but I am prepared to swear by it if it continues to work.

I seem to recall always worked as well. It was considered couth to vomit away from the pitch (or at least near the corner).

or some other daft cosy evening show can often help. As can a raffish Leonard Cohen album whilst gazing wistfully out of the window wondering what the week ahead may bring.*

*these only work if its a Sunday hangover.

Thanks for all the advice sadly I think I made the classic mistake of going out again with the same pair of Irish archaeologist a beer writer and a bloke from the Isle of Dogs someone’s god daughter met on line pretending to be a pirate. I did learn something: how not to buy drugs in Brussels, to avoid one armed bandits in Cuba and Oh we also met the last man in Europe to contract scurvy.