Issue when travelling Europe and connecting to public WiFi networks

I often have an issue when travelling in Europe and go to an Internet café with my iPhone.
I enter all the info and in wifi settings the network is ticked to say connected. The wifi icon is also visible in menu bar but whenever I try to connect I get a message that page is not available or to check settings.
Can't see anything wrong and settings are as they normal are when connecting to wifi at home in UK.
I also get this when connecting to free public wifi even when it requires no password
Any ideas why this may be? Travelling this weekend and am sure this will be an issue whilst away so would like to get to bottom of it.
Message was edited by: RDH

Thanks for the suggestion but that is not practical once I arrive to Spain.
Will not be taking a Mac to restore from if there is an issue.
Restore network settings is worth looking at but full restore of iPhone is out of the question. Just wondered if this is a known issue with a simple fix.
All seems a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut ;-)

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