> there's nothing as dreadful as the sound of people boarding or leaving every hour through the entire night. That really depends on the individual. Personally

> there's nothing as dreadful as the sound of people boarding or leaving every hour through the entire night. That really depends on the individual. Personally I really like that kind of background noise when trying to sleep. I will usually listen to music with headphones and what gets trough is dampened so much that it nearly qualifies as "ambient" music. But I've spend quite some time as a kid in overnight trains travelling between West-East Germany and Yugoslavia, and even more time in my teens travelling by train across central Europe. I kind of like the whole experience even without a private cabin. A bit like a travelling hotel with changing sights. I can take along a couple of books and whatever food and drink I like, without having to worry about weird security rules. In contrast to that long-distance air travel evokes only negative associations for me: Dry circulated air, pressure on the ears, cramped seats, the feeling of being stuck in a completely sealed metal tube, the "streamy" noise coming from the engines is really annoying compared to the rhythm of the sounds a train makes. When walking around on a plane there is nothing really to see because you can only walk between rows of seats with very small windows, which makes me feel weirdly guilty. While on a train I can walk the full distance back and forth, taking in some of the sights trough the much larger windows. It's also considered much more normal than pacing between the seating aisles of a plane.