the joys of flying
I have experienced every one of these events! A very complete list of distractions to proper rest, to which I would add the wail of the Muezzin in various places in the Middle East, the clanging of church bells in Europe on a Sunday morning, closing hour riots as the probably only disco in town in Niamey Niger lets out at 3am below my hotel window. And my favorite rest interruption, every time the power went out in Lagos the hotel electronics would squawk endlessly until the generator kicked in. The person who wrote this must have been a long haul freight pilot too! Very amusing!