28 April 2025, 16:05 | Updated: 28 April 2025, 16:51

By Kevin Smith

I'm writing this sitting on the floor outside of a toilet at Valencia airport as I managed to find the most valuable of resources right now - a working plug socket.

Almost five hours ago I got off my flight, came out of the airport, got on a waiting metro train to get into the city, and after five minutes, before the train had left, the lights went out, and we were told we needed to leave because there had been a blackout.

I went back up to the airport and waited for a while for a bus, but people were saying that traffic lights weren’t working and that it was dangerous driving in the city.

I thought I had better sit it out for a while and see what happens.

My husband would drive to pick me up, but he doesn't have enough petrol in the car to make the journey and petrol stations are closed.

I consider myself relatively lucky right now.

The airports........

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