Yeah, same here in my current location Spain.
I was trying to send a message to wish good morning to the girl that I’m seeing, and WhatsApp was stuck on “connecting”.
https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/ confirms that many other users are currently having problems connecting too.
Does WhatsApp have any official status page? I found an old twitter account that appears to be official but it hasn’t posted in ages.
Will they write post mortem analysis somewhere?