Add Wednesday, travel to BCN

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@@ -50,10 +50,18 @@ I'll miss all of the questions. But, I do monitor it form afar, and I appreciate
 questions Peter and Pieter put in. What happens next in Amsterdam, I will have to miss: the drinks,
 food, hanging out and exchanging stories will all be for a next time.
 
+Considering I will be traveling to Barcelona tomorrow, and I have a few minutes to spare, I drive
+over to the Interxion datacenter and do some pending maintenance for IP-Max: the current 100G link
+from Interxion to Frankfurt is suffering from what seems to be _electrical_ issues in the CFP cage.
+So I move myself to the floor at 23:30 when traffic is calmer, drain the link, and move the
+connection to both another optic and as well another port. I am successful: the occasional frame
+corruption is entirely gone. So that's at lease one productive thing I did today :)
+
 ## Pictures of the Day
 
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   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-22/IMG_2160.JPG" caption="Flying from Bern to Annecy over the alps." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-22/IMG_2164.JPG" caption="I moved this 100G link from Zurich to Frankfurt to another router port and optic." >}}
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-title: "Week 13, Wednesday:"
+title: "Week 13, Wednesday: Zurich to Barcelona"
 date: 2024-10-23T21:55:00+02:00
-draft: true
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-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/cosmicgate.png" alt="Credit: Cosmic Gate, YouTUbe" >}}
+
+This afternoon we'll be on our way to Barcelona and I feel pretty good about that. Apart from a bit
+of a stuffy nose and a nasal voice, I feel fine! After a quick breakfast with coffee, I take some
+time to clean my basement. Although, now I have a Roomba so I can auto-clean, or at least
+auto-vacuum my room, and IPng's serverroom too. As the iRobot, which I've called _Suckel_, is
+zooming around, I clean up cables and optics and various bits and pieces from the maintenance I
+performed for IP-Max yesterday.
+
+After lunch, I connect a bunch of new users at [[FrysIX](https://frys-ix.net/)], a small internet
+exchange that I operate together with my buddy Arend. The users come online in the quarantine VLAN
+and start configuring their kit. Two of them have a bit of an issue, they are a _reseller_ customer,
+with its supplier transporting the FrysIX via a switch to their router. Unfortunately, that switch
+is sending ethernet frames (perhaps spanning tree, or LLDP, or some other traffic), so I cannot move
+those two new members to the peeringlan. I'm sure the reseller will eventually figure it out, so I
+move on.
+
+At 15:00 we make our way to the Zurich Airport. I'm still very pleased that we settled in
+Br&uuml;ttisellen, which is to the NorthEast of Zurich city, and about 8km (5mi) away from the
+airport. It's easy to get there by bus, train, car and bike. I've even jogged to and from it from
+time to time, it's that close!
+
+We have some time to kill before our flight at 18:55, but I make good use of it by writing my
+journal entries for earlier this week. The flight boards on time, leaves roughly on time, and makes
+it to Barcelona smoothly. We land there at 20:30. Instead of taking a car, Marina has scouted out
+how we might use the metro. Our hotel is in _Upper Diagonal_, which is just a few minutes walk from
+the terminal station of the T9 subway train, which goes from the airport directly to _Zona
+Universaria_ without any changes.
+
+It is a one hour commute though, and it seems SpongeBob is a bit nervous. He gently pops out his
+face from within my shoe from time to time. There's nothing to fear, little spongebuddy, and we
+arrive at 21:30, perfect time for a spot of dinner. We don't have to go far, because our hotel
+itself has a little restaurant in it. We settle down and ask for just what the Doctor ordered:
+tapas with red wine.
+
+Our hotel room is gorgeous, a king bed with a terrace! We got lucky on this one, I think! Tomorrow
+at 09:00, the ESNOG two day conferrence starts. Marina will be hanging out in the city as she has
+(pre-)bought tickets for the Picasso museum. She will visit a few museums and take in the
+architecture, while I nerd out and practice my Spanish a bit at ESNOG'32.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
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+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-23/IMG_2165.JPG" caption="Zurich Airport as seen from the inside." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-23/IMG_2170.JPG" caption="Spongebob socks, he is so cute <3" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-23/IMG_2171.JPG" caption="Our hotelroom in Upper Diagonal is not too shabby!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-23/IMG_2173.JPG" caption="Our dinner is tapas and wine - a staple for us when in Barcelona" >}}
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