Also, apparently Europe has forgotten about trains and stuff. It's like when cell phones lose their signal and everyone forgets that there are other ways to communicate.
When it comes to physical transportation of goods or people Within 'mainland Europe' (as often known up here on these 'ere British Isles of ours[1]) that's Ok (if it weren't for the train strike the French are suffering, and general clogging of arteries) but travel between various islands dotted around the place is having to fall back upon the non-aerial transport systems. Of course, this
does include train betwixt UK and France, but with the Chunnel overloaded as well as the usual ferry system[2][3], and London (/the UK in general) having become a major stepping-stone in transatlantic flights.
You need to understand that the British newspaper headline of times past along the lines of "heavy fog in Channel, continent isolated" may be an insular way (figuratively
and literally) of describing the situation, but is at least accurate in magnitude, if not polarity.
[1] Give or take Eire, and though I'm sure the terminology also holds (even more so!) on l'Isle Manche
[2] Which might well have been down-sized since the opening of the Chunnel, as I know the RORO hovercraft service has since been retired and is no longer capable of being brought into operation... Pity, I could imagine the news clip of that coming to the rescue with Ride Of The Valkaries playing over the top.
[3] Could have been worse. Earlier this year snow caused almost total failure of the TML and the weather at sea sometimes becomes so rough that ferries in transit can't safely get into their destination ports and reportedly sit outside for up to a day, if not diverted all the round to Spain.
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