

Eventually they told me they couldn't help me. Tried calling apple support thinking maybe I have a virus or other malware, but nothing came up. Every time I type in a website it tells me "This Website Can't be Reached, the website _ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address, err_access_denied". I come back from China and I can no longer use google chrome at all. In China I might have tried to use google because I forgot, but quickly switched to safari.

Take a long stroll past statuesque – thanks to the football-pitch-flat land – windmills, wooden houses and workshops, building your appetite for a break at the pancake restaurant.Before I went to China my computer was working fine. A kind of living museum, Zaanse Schans is a residential neighbourhood as well as an area in which the traditions of baking, cheese-making and metal casting (at the pewter foundry) are still in action. Of course, the more practical plan would be to enjoy an evening in Amsterdam, enjoying a leisurely morning, then boarding a 20-minute train. Zaanse Schans, Zaandam, The Netherlandsīattle the crowds of central London in the morning and by late afternoon you are transported to Holland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Options with journey times of six hours or less include capitals, quaint villages and scenic tracts of countryside. The Eurostar, via continental connections, opens up tens of cities that can be reached from London within a day. This comes days ahead of COP26 (the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties), which begins in Glasgow on October 31.īritons who already understand – where possible – train travel to be more pleasant and comfortable than flying, or those who fancy giving it a try, may find inspiration here.

The environmental group is calling on the European Union to ban flights on routes where there’s an alternative train journey of six hours or less. On the continent, more than a third of the 150 busiest short-haul flight routes have a suitable rail alternative with journey times of less than six hours, according to research by Greenpeace. Journey by rail and you can watch the landscape evolve, sip champagne as you ride and perhaps even stop for lunch along the way – all while feeling a little smug about your less cumbersome carbon footprint. All these experiences are within reach without the hassles of air travel – which have only become more pronounced during the pandemic. Step onto a train at London St Pancras and later that day you could be tasting the crop of The Loire Valley, wandering the grounds of a schloss or tucking into chunks of cheese in Gouda.
