I have had to laugh while reading this thread and it has made me recall the snoring situation when I walked in March. I am a light sleeper anyway and do not sleep so well when I am away from home. I wore earplugs but pretty much felt that I would often be awake whether people were snoring or not. Often I would lay awake at night in the albergues, tired but grateful for a place to stretch out my body. There were few of us in the albergues at that time of year and more often than not, we were with people that we had spent quite a bit of time with. The dear French gentleman that we walked with, and who we adored, was a snorer. One night, while he was snoring, the young Dutch woman started clapping her hands. After one clap the snoring would subside a bit. She later told us that she had read that if you clap, or make some other noise, it would waken the snorer (only slightly)and he would resume sleeping without snoring. It seemed to work a bit. I snapped my fingers a few nights myself. We tended not to do this in a large albergue, or with "strangers". Some nights later, at about 3:00 a.m. the young German woman in the bunk next to me and I were awake even though it was quiet. She looked at me and said, "I think the French man might be dead! He isn't snoring." The next morning we told him this and we all had a good laugh about it. I loved that among the new pilgrims, people were fairly gentle with snorers and tended to let it go. But, when a friend from home joined me for the last week and she proved to be a snorer, I reached over to her bunk, shook her strongly and said, "STOP SNORING". I guess the snoring is part of the experience and the earplugs helped a lot.