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Due to my ruined knee, it took me quite some time to get to the hotel. I arrived at about 14:30 there. At the hotel rumors were flying: Marocco, Italy and Belgium were said to be down as well and someone even said that Ireland was affected.

Connectivity was practically zero at that time. Nobody could get any web site.

I climbed 8 floors up to the rooftop bar (and explored the emergency stairs in the process), expecting the best chances for any reception there. To my surprise, the rooftop bar was operating. There were no warm dishes, but most drinks were available and cold snacks. My kudos to the staff and I will fill the tip jar very generously.

I managed to get a voice call through to @isotopp (in about 7 attempts) to get a rough briefing. That didn't look good. Expected time to recovery was 6-10 hours. Especially 10 hours would have been very bad because that meant no power till past midnight.

Over the next two hours, I scanned the WIFI spectrum. And it was awing. My hotel is located about 50m from "Las Ramblas" and usually I could get more APs than my phone could show. Now there was NOTHING AT ALL.

During that time a hotel about 400-500m from mine seems to have brought up their emergency power generator and their free WIFI went up. I managed to connect to it twice for about 5min during the next 2 hours. Whoever operates the SSID "Liceu_Opera" in #Barcelona. You have my thanks and respect.

5/7