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How to Sleep in 9 Beds in 8 Weeks: A Timeline of my Summer Travels

posted on September 12, 2016

How to Sleep in 9 Beds In 8 Weeks

Step 1: Flee home

Have an annoying family member or friend room with you. Said family member needs to not let you sleep at all at night, to the point that for two weeks running you fall asleep at sunrise on a daily basis. Want to hit things. Decide to remove yourself from the situation instead.

Step 2: Get on a train. Get on another train. Get on a plane. Get on a car. Get on a bus. Be picked up by a darling blog acquaintance who offered to host you for a bit.

Bed #1: Woolwich. Double mattress on the floor. Soft-firm. Skylights. Uncomfortable for doing things but excellent for sleep. First night’s sleep in a month. Brain barely remembers how to have nightmares, it’s so tired.

Step 3: Continue to use kindness of friends to stay the fuck away from home.

Bed #2: Taplow. Double in a guest room in a cottage. Wiry but comfy as fuck. Comfy armchair downstairs to do things. Middle of fucking nowhere. Weird dreams just the once. Must leave because unexpected construction on listed building’s façade. So long, estate cat.

Bed #3: Brixton. Double bed with a duvet that does not even remotely cover the mattress, somehow. Homemade decals of London things on the walls. Pretty cute from afar.

Step 4: Get on another bus and another bus and another train and another plane and another plane and another bus to meet your best friend and crash with her.

Bed #4: Tallinn. Cot in best friend’s room that her parents got for the occasion. Thank you, her parents. Soft mattress that moves around a lot on the structure, but comfortable nonetheless. However, as it’s a longer stay and I get to relax, so does my brain and I start remembering my weird dreams and nightmares again. I even have one of my recurring dreams about this girl I knew in high school and me fumbling towards a relationship, which is one of the only 100% good dreams I ever have, and one of the few that make some modicum of sense outside my sleeping head, which is why I submitted it to Adjustamatic for their Dreams Explained campaign. I don’t know if they’ll get around to it, but it’s always nice to be asked about your dreams, seeing as how no one ever wants to hear about other people’s (including me).

Bed #5: Friend’s sofabed when she visits her parents because it’s bigger. Bigger. A little hard. I get to stretch my legs, though, so a+. The weird dreams remain.

Step 5: Take a job somewhere else and spend the weekend there, in two different places, one of which you stayed in before but it just so happens you’re staying in a different guest room this time.

Bed #6: Taplow. Single. Tall as fuck but also very comfortable. Estate cat greets me in the morning with mud. Good times.

Bed #7: LHA London’s Bowden Court. A single. Makes a weird noise when I move in a certain way, but otherwise perfectly adequate. Not into the shared bathroom at all though.

Step 6: Go back to best friend for four days. Have a nightmare on the second day that you wake up at midnight, which is only a terrible thing because you know that feeling as it has happened before, when your sleep schedule was significantly more screwed up. Find a flight towards your next crash pad that arrives so late you can’t continue your journey. Book hotel in city.

Bed #8: Bremen. Novum Bremer Haus. Sweet basic hotel, reminds me where I stayed with my parents in Valencia in 2006. Clean and tidy and comfortable. Hot, though, and I got bit by mosquitos. Slept excellently though.

Step 7: Take bus to original destination. Be picked up by a longtime friend and driven to their flat in Leeuwarden.

Step 8: Hit week 8 in their guest room, with one of their cats on bed #9.

Post in collaboration with Adjustamatic.

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7 Comments

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  • Jen Hsieh

    I thoroughly enjoy how many cats you encounter during your trip. Everything is better with cats. Everything.

    Also, everyone should talk about beds more because somehow you’ve made experiences sleeping in different types of beds interesting. And now all I want to do is go home, lie in my bed, and think about how it feels.

    JennifHsieh

    • Lix Hewett

      Truer words.

      I’m waiting for the one bed that blows all other beds out of the water so I can ask the owner for the brand and file it away for whenever I buy myself a mattress, haha.

  • Julia Kr.

    Haha, this is awesome. I’m honestly jelly of your bed and city-hopping! <3

    xx http://cozynewyorkcity.com/

    • Lix Hewett

      It’s been pretty damn stressless, I have to say! I will not disabuse you of any notion that it is something to be jealous of.

  • Sara Strauss

    That’s a lot of beds! It’s nice you got to get away from your annoying family member for several weeks haha! I’ve never couch surfed before, but it seems exciting (and a little nerve-wracking) to always be moving around!
    ~Sara

    • Lix Hewett

      It is, haha. I wouldn’t call it couch-surfing necessarily since I know everyone I’ve crashed with and it was all planned fairly in advance – I would not be able to do it with complete strangers, my anxiety would rebel! I’m going back home next week but hoping to restart the process again in October since my sister will be in my room till grandma leaves in December…and I just cannot deal with no sleep.

  • Anastasia

    So maybe beds Lix, hahaha :)
    I have couch surfed only once (and regretted it massively), but I wouldnt mind doing it again just for the adventure! I love travelling in any way and if this is what it takes to do it then I am up for it xx

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