Some years back an NHS worker travelled 50 miles from Kent to London in bad snow to carry out operations, the weather was so bad he had to walk 20 miles out of the 50 to get to work........
The slowdown in growth is in large part due to traders no longer wanting their goods to pass through Russia via the Silk Road's northern route, lest they run into legal trouble. Russian Railways are under EU and U.S. financial sanctions, and it's tricky to insure products being transported through Russia because of the war and sanctions' "chilling effect," according to Kristian Schmidt, who leads land transport policy at the European Commission.