Nobbie Q
Well-Known Member
Still feeling specks of sand from San Antonio Bay on my sandals at home and habitually reading Ibiza-Spotlight, I think I'm ready to finally post my review of my first ever trip to Ibiza that I did last month. It took me a week or so to get back into the groove of things back at home but I did it, and had to get back into the mundane way of doing things. I'll update this slowly...
Preface
I've been wondering about Ibiza ever since I discovered Sasha's Global Underground 13: Ibiza mix which introduced me to proper dance music back in 2001. I've never heard music like this being mixed like this ever before. I was listening to a lot of trance-pop at the time, ATB- 9 PM and Alice Deejay. I discovered ATB's Clubber's Guide to Trance and on it was BT's Fibonacci Sequence. I tried to download it off of Napster and I discovered it as being part of disc 2 of Sasha's mix, and the rest was history. I listened to more mixes from this place and they were all steller, like Deep Dish's Renaissance Ibiza mix. I got familiar with the balaeric style
June 15th
My flight was at 3 PM from Toronto. I had booked my trip back in mid-February. I remember every year looking at the prices around this time and thought it was doable, but I kept on holding off on it because I was working on saving my money a lot better, but after not taking a vacation for 3 years I decided to do this finally.
I already had mixed feelings about this trip. I was waiting for docs from my Canadian government for a new job that was offered to me overseas teaching English In Korea but they still hadn't come in yet and I was close to losing the position as a result. And I didn't get this new position at my still current existing job. I wanted to feel like I actually deserved this trip by looking forward to something after, but nonetheless, my dad dropped me off at Pearson Airport outside Toronto and I was off my way
I bought Hendrick's Gin at the duty free shop a 1.4 liter version of it I think. I'm a big gin fan, but realized I still hadn't had the best of it yet! My flight was from Toronto to Philly to Barcelona..then finally Ibiza. My flight was delayed until 4:20 PM arrgh. It's like every flight from or to Toronto is ALWAYS delayed for me. I met a group of 3 guys who were also going to Barcelona, taking the same flights as me. One guy jokingly said to me "You'll make it but your bags might not". This became a foreshadowing thing as this is exactly what happened but more on that later.
This trip immediately got off onto a bit of a rocky start. After a few drinks with those guys at the airport bar (which had cool tablets for ordering stuff on) I reached the gate at around 4 PM. After seeing my boarding pass, they told me to enter this tunnel to get to the plane. It was like only me and two other people left...they were calling my name on over the loudspekers prior lol. When i got out of the tunnel, i was outside and I saw a plane but I wasn't if i was supposed to board it, so I kept on walking and I walked back inside through another set of doors. I walked for a bit and I realized oh crap I cant be going the right way. So I went back and then I realized the plane was there the whole time and I entered it, and the person from the airline was there at the entrance thinking I was a retard lol.
So anyway quick flight to Philly without a hitch. I then had to take a small airport bus to get to the other other gate for the flight to Barcelona. This flight was very comfy, as it was like only half full. I immediately changed seats and had two seats to myself.
Some pics from the plane to Barcelona:
Preface
I've been wondering about Ibiza ever since I discovered Sasha's Global Underground 13: Ibiza mix which introduced me to proper dance music back in 2001. I've never heard music like this being mixed like this ever before. I was listening to a lot of trance-pop at the time, ATB- 9 PM and Alice Deejay. I discovered ATB's Clubber's Guide to Trance and on it was BT's Fibonacci Sequence. I tried to download it off of Napster and I discovered it as being part of disc 2 of Sasha's mix, and the rest was history. I listened to more mixes from this place and they were all steller, like Deep Dish's Renaissance Ibiza mix. I got familiar with the balaeric style
June 15th
My flight was at 3 PM from Toronto. I had booked my trip back in mid-February. I remember every year looking at the prices around this time and thought it was doable, but I kept on holding off on it because I was working on saving my money a lot better, but after not taking a vacation for 3 years I decided to do this finally.
I already had mixed feelings about this trip. I was waiting for docs from my Canadian government for a new job that was offered to me overseas teaching English In Korea but they still hadn't come in yet and I was close to losing the position as a result. And I didn't get this new position at my still current existing job. I wanted to feel like I actually deserved this trip by looking forward to something after, but nonetheless, my dad dropped me off at Pearson Airport outside Toronto and I was off my way
I bought Hendrick's Gin at the duty free shop a 1.4 liter version of it I think. I'm a big gin fan, but realized I still hadn't had the best of it yet! My flight was from Toronto to Philly to Barcelona..then finally Ibiza. My flight was delayed until 4:20 PM arrgh. It's like every flight from or to Toronto is ALWAYS delayed for me. I met a group of 3 guys who were also going to Barcelona, taking the same flights as me. One guy jokingly said to me "You'll make it but your bags might not". This became a foreshadowing thing as this is exactly what happened but more on that later.
This trip immediately got off onto a bit of a rocky start. After a few drinks with those guys at the airport bar (which had cool tablets for ordering stuff on) I reached the gate at around 4 PM. After seeing my boarding pass, they told me to enter this tunnel to get to the plane. It was like only me and two other people left...they were calling my name on over the loudspekers prior lol. When i got out of the tunnel, i was outside and I saw a plane but I wasn't if i was supposed to board it, so I kept on walking and I walked back inside through another set of doors. I walked for a bit and I realized oh crap I cant be going the right way. So I went back and then I realized the plane was there the whole time and I entered it, and the person from the airline was there at the entrance thinking I was a retard lol.
So anyway quick flight to Philly without a hitch. I then had to take a small airport bus to get to the other other gate for the flight to Barcelona. This flight was very comfy, as it was like only half full. I immediately changed seats and had two seats to myself.
Some pics from the plane to Barcelona: