Day one at Websummit, opening night.

Ready to start the day. Breakfast was pretty naff and a tiny little hotel restaurant was crazy busy. 

Checking the booth out. 

A bit of a pain checking out the booth. UK vaccine passports weren't accepted. Plus we are partners not exhibitors. Ots pretty amazing how it will all come together. Suzanne was pretty surprised that we were able to get in. This place is absolutely massive. We are in a great spot, which is nice. They messed up the graphics though, I think there was some confusion when we sent through the hi

Damiano on the stand

Coffee after checking the booth. 

Found a nice little place to have a couple of coffees and get some work done digital nomad style. Coffees are tiny out here. 

Lunch of the best octopus

Had lunch with the guys. The first time of meeting Patrice, nice guy. The grilled octopus was really amazing. Probably better than I thought. Not at all chewy and very meaty. Full of smokey flavour. Glad I went for something a but different. 

Opening evening at websummit. 

Pretty amazing to see this manynpwkple back together. Something like 48k people over the three days. The system to get in was all a bit ridiculous, which included QR codes and masks. Like they are ever going to help people. Was terrific to see people all having a good time though.

The Facebook whistle-blower. Left halfway though. 

Founder of Black lives matter, a bit preachy and they had to run some music to get her off. 

Massive arena. Was great.  

Cool to be back. 

 

Rounded it off with a beer at the end with Damiano. Then the place mysteriously just shut down. 

Meal at Tivoli Oriente Lisboa Hotel

Nice meal at a hotel with the team. Went for pasta, which was rare for me. Then a last beer on the rooftop. Was a nice view and the temperature was lovely.