7 hour train journey

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This is going to be me next week. Never done a train journey this long. Hit me with all the ways I can keep myself occupied. I was thinking I could download some films from Netflix and then will I be able to play them without Internet? Thanks!

Yes, just make sure you don't have anything downloaded to other devices on the same account if your account only allows one at a time.

Train WiFi may be fine, but safer to have downloads!

I normally play games on my phone, read, nap and then watch stuff. I like making lists, do do a bit of list making and deleting emails etc.

You could read a book. Or maybe even two.

I'd take a book and load up crosswords and sudokus onto my ipad if I was taking it, or phone otherwise.

Take a good book. Have a nap. A magazine with some puzzles. It’s 6 hours by train to my family so I have done this a lot over many years and never thought that hard about it. My teens now do it too. It goes by. Have a power bank with you (even if there’s a charging point on train they don’t always work).

Just stay on mumsnet and 7 hrs will pass before you know it.
Obviously, it's better if you can break it up with a couple of films. I like to read too.
You could in theory, download a course if you want to be super productive.

I also spend time like this deleting emails btw which, now I read it from someone else, is quite a depressing indictment of our times 😩😆

I read the wikipedia pages of towns and places of interest I'm passing through. Download some films/tv programmes in advance.

7 hours on a train... Watch the world go by and listen to music. Delicious!

Listen to music and drink wine and eat M&S snacks.

Where are you going to? I used to travel up the East coast mainline to Scotland and back and spent much of my journey looking out of the window. The scenery for a great deal of the journey was absolutely breathtaking.
This was in the time before most people had mobile phones so I also often had very interesting conversations with fellow passengers. I miss that part of travelling nowadays.

I recently traveled from Cornwall up to the midlands . About 4.5 hrs. I had my kinder and the wifi was good most of the time.The train filled up as we travelled up country and the last hour I chatted with the lady who sat next to me. We were on similar journeys, she had been visiting her mum who was deteriorating healthwise, I had been with my sister who was terminally ill. We shared stories and just chatted about family. It’s such a shame that phones and gadgets have come between human contact. We were both of an age where it was normal to just chat with a stranger on a long trip.

Yeah I am with @ErrolTheDragon and @ErrolTheDragon
Get a good book or two. Take a nice picnic. Look out of the window and just enjoy the scenery

Read a book, write Christmas cards, write an unexpected letter to someone you love, play a game with yourself where everyone who asks you anything about you on the journey you have to lie, take lots of lovely food and ration it through the stations, take a bottle of wine and do the same, doze and look out of the window, buy a special expensive magazine and flick through it, move if there's anyone annoying nearby, enjoy it.

I usually just read on my Kindle. DH relies on the train WiFi and watches crap on Netflix..DS downloads music and films.

I've done a lot of long distance trains journeys. I usually split the journey into segments. One hour reading. Half an hour for lunch. An hour faffing about on Mumsnet. Coffee and a biscuit for half an hour. Looking out of the window for half an hour. Doze off for a bit. Read again. Lunch.

You need a belt and braces approach. Lunch, flask, snacks, download films, music, books . Make sure you WiFi works in the country you are going to.

A well prepared train journey is a joy

I travelled from the SE to Oban - 12 hours

I took my cross stich, a colouring book and a book to read. In the event I watched the countryside and talked to my fellow passengers

The really beautiful scenery the other side of Glasgow, I saw some but the light was starting to fail so I read one of those TV magazines which was passed round all the passengers and probably dozed. I'd had enough by then

Now I would take my tablet and read or watch YouTube but I didn't have one back then

I wouldn't rely on train wifi, it's dreadful in my experience. Definitely something to read and/or watch, and music/podcasts to listen to. I hate it if I end up near annoyingly noisy people, so always make sure I've got my noise-cancelling headphones and something good to listen to.