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What do you sleep under?
One thing I've been noticing on our current trip is the different assumptions about how a bed gets covered.
In the US, you typically have (bottom to top):
- Boxspring
- Mattress
- Fitted bottom sheet
- Top sheet
- Blanket
- Quilt
The three top layers are optional, and you use whatever makes sense for the weather.
In Europe (at least, most of the places I've traveled, both hotels and AirBnBs/VRBOs), the custom seems to typically be to just have a duvet on top, and that keeps throwing me for a loop.
I mean, I kind of understand the appeal: when I was growing up, I invariably just used a quilt, year-round. I didn't learn The Way of the Hospital Corner until after getting married.
But I'm coming to the opinion that I like the American norm better, because it's more modular. In winter, I'll have all three pulled up; in summer, I'll just be using the top sheet. Right now on our trip, I'm finding the duvet typically just a little bit warmer than I want, at least during part of the night.
No idea whether I'm typical or weird this way, but the difference has been catching my attention.
(Tangent: posts of more than 500 characters are going here, but short microblog-length entries about our vacation are going on my Mastodon, using the same #europe2024 tag as here.)
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I've noticed the duvet-only thing when traveling in the US, not just outside. (It's been a while since I've been outside the US, so I don't remember about that so much.) I always have that same reaction: what if I only want a light layer of cover? what happened to modularity?
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