Gloria P wrote:

> > As if it is not bad enough that you are crammed into those miniature seats for
> > extended periods but you have to share the air with people who may be carrying
> > germs from wherever it is they have been travelling. I am looking forward to
> > leaving on my Scandinavian holiday in two days but I am not looking forward to
> > sitting in an air plane for close to 13 hours.
> >
> >
>
> You could don a surgical mask while you sleep. (Do try to sleep--it
> makes the trip seem much shorter.)

I wish that I could. I have never been able to sleep in any mode of transportation.
Every transatlantic flight I have ever been on I have been awake for the entire 7-8
hour flight, bored to tears. I thought that I would take a pass on coffee during the
flight, but I could never sleep in cars when I was a kid and before I drank coffee or
tea. When I travel by car with my wife she usually nods off within 20 minutes, and
when we went to Europe with my son (15 at the time) he slept on the plane and
throughout most of the train trips.

This should be an experience. I learned from my last trip that the best way to cope
is to have a power nap and then go to bed early, but we always stayed in hotels
before. When we get to Tallinn we will be staying with our niece and she has a two
year old and a 5 year old. I don't see a nap happening there.