Other people who can't sleep on planes. Can you sleep on trains in a couchette/sleeper?
Apr 26th, 2006, 03:38 AM
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Thing is, everything you say applies just fine to DAYTIME train travel. And yes, I've met some really interesting people on the train, especially those older 'Agatha Christie' compartment type trains one still finds in Italy.
You brought up another aspect of the problem - some folks might like to chat to the wee hours, others (Sue waves her hand) want to just turn in early. And I'm a very light sleeper - even quiet talking would keep me awake.
Re snoring and my commiting of homicide: I shall plead your murder of my sleep as a defense, and get off.
Thing is, everything you say applies just fine to DAYTIME train travel. And yes, I've met some really interesting people on the train, especially those older 'Agatha Christie' compartment type trains one still finds in Italy.
You brought up another aspect of the problem - some folks might like to chat to the wee hours, others (Sue waves her hand) want to just turn in early. And I'm a very light sleeper - even quiet talking would keep me awake.
Re snoring and my commiting of homicide: I shall plead your murder of my sleep as a defense, and get off.
Apr 26th, 2006, 04:12 AM
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I don't know if this is still true, but in the summer 2003 when I travelled Budapest to Krakow on a sleeper, we would get woken up for "Passport Control" at all border crossings. This made it hard for my mom to sleep, although I did ok and I can't sleep on planes. Probably this doesn't happen now that these countries are EU, but if you go any farther east you probably will be woken up.
By the way, sleeping on the train is much easier for me than on a bus. I took a 12 hour bus Prague to Zagreb and it was completely miserable. I don't suggest unless you have no good alternatives.
By the way, sleeping on the train is much easier for me than on a bus. I took a 12 hour bus Prague to Zagreb and it was completely miserable. I don't suggest unless you have no good alternatives.
Apr 26th, 2006, 07:01 AM
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In my experience the guy who sits in the train hallway (conductor?) kept the passports for all the passengers for boader crossings. He took it when you got on and returned it to you in the morning (so you were not woken up in the night).
Apr 26th, 2006, 07:33 AM
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I was told that is how it was (that you would not get woken up) but my two experiences on sleeper trains in East/Central Europe that is not what happened to me.
Each time they woke us up. But that was in 2003. And perhaps it was just bad luck?
Each time they woke us up. But that was in 2003. And perhaps it was just bad luck?
Apr 27th, 2006, 10:07 PM
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I can not sleep on planes at all, or in cars for that matter. I have to be laying prone to actually sleep, and even then--I'm quite an insomniac!
However, I love overnight trains, and I don't have a problem in couchettes. I'm so tired while traveling that I'm out like a light, and I use earplugs to cut the noise. I also grew up sleeping on a sailboat, so it's like a return home for me to rock to sleep
However, I love overnight trains, and I don't have a problem in couchettes. I'm so tired while traveling that I'm out like a light, and I use earplugs to cut the noise. I also grew up sleeping on a sailboat, so it's like a return home for me to rock to sleep
