I’ll do a more through review / summary of the last few weeks soon. Overall brilliant time, amazing food this year, discovered lots of new places (even after coming 15 years) and came back the most rested I’ve been in years.
However, linked to the points above I do worry about the future, and how the island does get back to some more clubbing normality - if indeed it wants to.
We all know Ibiza & Formentera are beautiful places. They both have some stunning areas, some of my favourite spots in the world. But what seals it for many of us over the Amalfi Coast, Mykonos, St Trop is the music, the nightlife, the mix of people, odd balls and dancing with people from 18 to 69 in a nightclub. That’s what you don’t get anywhere else, and why we love it.
The ability to spend a day up north, relax and snorkel all afternoon, have a long late lunch, but then drive back to your apartment and Villa and get ready for Pacha/DC10. If we can’t eventually bring that back, then it’s USP isn’t there. Of course we’ll all still have Ibiza on the list of places to go to, but will we go 2 or 3 times a year like we used to? Will it be a once every 2-3 years destination?
Unless they find a way to get things open where you don’t have to spend €1,000 on a table to sit down and listen to music, then I can’t see how it remains the centre of the summer dance music industry.
One of the biggest takeaways for me this year was that “everybody looks the same”! That’s something I’ve never said in Ibiza. I want to talk to Brad the builder from Glasgow and Donatala from Milan - all in the space of 5 metres on the DC10 Terrace!
What worries me, is that Covid is always going to be with us in some form. The sad reality is that places like Ibiza will always get higher levels every season as people come together from all over the world. In the same way we all get colds/sore throats every September/ October on Ibiza. I mean Ibiza is the common cold super spreader every autumn right?
A few people getting Covid in Fabric London over the weekend in a city with a 9-10 million population isn’t an issue, it doesn’t register. How moving forward are holiday locations going to deal with an outbreak when the overall population is quite small? I hope what I’m saying makes sense.
Maybe 2022 will be back to normal for outside clubs? Cova, Destino and Ushuaia back to normal? Maybe that’s the route back over the next few years I hope.
And what I hope more than anything is everything I’ve said above is total rubbish and we laugh at it next season when we are in Amnesia with 5,000 people until 7am!
