Reading everyone else's stories on the subject, I have my own personal sorry tale to tell.
We were just married and went to stay with my sister and her husband, who were going through a bit of a problematic time. They put us in a different room from usual, they had a beautiful old barn and the main window in this room was way up in the ceiling. It was hot, they had left it open, and the room had filled with midges. DBH was anxious about bites even with insect repellent on, so when we went to bed he just couldn't sleep, as he was being dive-bombed. So he said.
So I gave up, read on a chair and let him leap about on the bed flipping at them with a towel for almost an hour until he was so exhausted that he didn't care any more.
The next morning, DS and BiL weren't talking to us. It was half a day before I managed to work out what they thought we had been doing... My how we all laughed...
It took me even longer to work out that they were jealous!
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We went away this weekend, and stayed in a lovely country pub in a tiny village near Melton Mowbray.
We went to bed fairly early at the pub, after a large meal and catching up on our emails etc. with a large drink in front of the fire, together with a nice but rather twee late-middle-aged couple, she was a bit clingy and ultra feminine, if you know what I mean. I read a little, it was lovely and quiet, the village was silent and all the locals had done their main weekend drinking the night before. Bliss.
Then, after a fairly short while, I was awoken by furious hammering at the door. I called out to ask who was there - no reply. Back to sleep.
I was awoken again an hour later, at around 1am, DBH too, again there was furious hammering. I thought maybe it was outside, the back door to the courtyard was below our room. Looked out of the window - nothing. Back to bed.
An hour later we were awoken again. This time I wondered if it was the central heating pipes being blocked with air, we decided that that must be what it was.
It happened again twice, at hourly intervals. Really incredibly loud. DBH slept through it better than I did. He got up at 7am and went downstairs to catch up on his emails as wifi in our room was poor, and I slowly and grumpily awoke after very little sleep. DBH came up and said that he had asked the owner what the noise was, and he couldn't think, but would check the heating.
We went down to breakfast, and the couple from the night before were already there. I went over to them, and asked if they had been awoken by all the banging the night before. She looked down and said nothing, he said Yes, it was them, the noise was their bed banging on the wall! 
I didn't know what to say! I just said, I had thought it was someone breaking in! 
Viagra has a lot to answer for...
Anyway, we packed up our car after a rather quiet breakfast... and they both got into separate cars and drove off in separate directions!!!
We did laugh - but very tiredly! I bet he went home and said to his wife, the conference was very tiring, but the facilities were great!
DBH and pub owner now wondering where to buy Viagra. Pub owner relieved it was them, because the heating was turned off!
A question I'm sure many of us have asked ourselves.
My husband and I lived in Spain for a while and we used to take our dogs to a secluded beach that was seldom used (you had to know it was there to find it). One early morning, we sat on the beach watching an older couple (maybe in their 60s) frolicking in the surf. We sat and drank coffee from the flask whilst the dogs swam in the sea very near to this couple and I marvelled at how long they were staying in - the water wouldn't have been that warm. We stayed for about 30 minutes and started the walk up the hillside back to the car. Half way up the hill climb, I glanced back at the beach to see the couple leaving the sea and both were stark naked - I think we had interrupted something very special for them
Had I had the sense to the think of it at the time, we'd have left a lot sooner rather than risk them getting hypothermia! I also felt a bit dense.
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