tclubber
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Arrived yesterday at about 5pm. Is the weather in winter always that bad?? Rainy and foggy.
After picking up the rental car, drove to the Salines beach (the usual routine after arriving in the summer). Not surprisingly, I was the only person there. All restaurants were obviusly closed, but Jockey's club didn't look as abandoned as the other places - they had provisionary walls and door installed. Does that place open in winter as well? It is probably as remote from any human settlements as it can get...
Drove to PdB then. The place is dead, with just a pharmacy and a couple of bars open. Some hotels even had fences erected around their entrances (sure doesn't stop the famous Ibiza thieves from stealing everything valuable from the rooms
).
Drove to the Ibiza town from there. Here the first shock: even in winter, there are traffic jams and it is difficult to find a parking spot. I always thought all those nasty cars clogging the streets and preventing me from driving quickly were just other tourists like me... but it seems they are locals.
The area by the harbor (where all the tourist/music shops are) was completely deserted, with all shops closed down for winter (a lot of windows closed off with wood). The area around Paseo Vara de Rey looked quite lively however, if not a carnival-related tent in the middle and the cold temperature, one could think it was summer. Around 50% of all cafes were open. The food prices are exactly like in the summer (expensive places facing the harbor were all closed for winter however).
All luxury yachts were gone.
Drove to Santa Eularia from there, where my hotel was. Again, just like in the summer, the traffic on that road was very tight and finding a parking spot turned out to be tricky. Ate at a Chinese place, the food was better than when I tried them last summer. The beach is deserted, all cafes there closed down as well.
Today it was sunny around noon. Drove to Cala de Boix, the water looks so much more crystal clear than in the summer, but this is most likely because I seldomly get out in the summer before noon, so the sunshine would no longer come through the waves
Continued to Cala Sant Vicente - here, evetything closed down. Apparently there was some small mudslide on the hill to the North of the beach (where all the expensive villas are) - there was some ground moving equipment there digging around. Drove to the top of the hill, enjoyed the phantastic panorama.
Went to Portinatx (again, almost no cars on the road and Portinatx itself pretty dead - I think there was not a single shop open). Then off to Benirras and to SanAn. The countryside is beautiful with lots of green everywhere and white cherry(?) blossom. Forested areas look exactly like in the summer. Surprisingly, some cafes in the small towns on the way were open and well patronized by locals.
SanAn seems to be expecting some carnival procession, the police were busy evacuating cars from the street by the harbor. Please forgive my lack of excitement about the carnival season - I hate it. Hope I will be able to drive out of SanAn.
In general, the optical difference to the summer is much less than I expected, but then, I always find time to enjoy the landscape even in the summer It is very relaxing with no parties to hurry to. Love it, but it will sure get boring quickly. So tomorrow I am flying to Mallorca in the evening and then home to Germany.
If the weather stays good tomorrow, will probably try climbing Sa Talaia and maybe hiking to one of the watch towers (can they all be climbed?) I have only been on the one overlooking Atlantis.
After picking up the rental car, drove to the Salines beach (the usual routine after arriving in the summer). Not surprisingly, I was the only person there. All restaurants were obviusly closed, but Jockey's club didn't look as abandoned as the other places - they had provisionary walls and door installed. Does that place open in winter as well? It is probably as remote from any human settlements as it can get...
Drove to PdB then. The place is dead, with just a pharmacy and a couple of bars open. Some hotels even had fences erected around their entrances (sure doesn't stop the famous Ibiza thieves from stealing everything valuable from the rooms
).Drove to the Ibiza town from there. Here the first shock: even in winter, there are traffic jams and it is difficult to find a parking spot. I always thought all those nasty cars clogging the streets and preventing me from driving quickly were just other tourists like me... but it seems they are locals.
The area by the harbor (where all the tourist/music shops are) was completely deserted, with all shops closed down for winter (a lot of windows closed off with wood). The area around Paseo Vara de Rey looked quite lively however, if not a carnival-related tent in the middle and the cold temperature, one could think it was summer. Around 50% of all cafes were open. The food prices are exactly like in the summer (expensive places facing the harbor were all closed for winter however).
All luxury yachts were gone.
Drove to Santa Eularia from there, where my hotel was. Again, just like in the summer, the traffic on that road was very tight and finding a parking spot turned out to be tricky. Ate at a Chinese place, the food was better than when I tried them last summer. The beach is deserted, all cafes there closed down as well.
Today it was sunny around noon. Drove to Cala de Boix, the water looks so much more crystal clear than in the summer, but this is most likely because I seldomly get out in the summer before noon, so the sunshine would no longer come through the waves
Continued to Cala Sant Vicente - here, evetything closed down. Apparently there was some small mudslide on the hill to the North of the beach (where all the expensive villas are) - there was some ground moving equipment there digging around. Drove to the top of the hill, enjoyed the phantastic panorama.
Went to Portinatx (again, almost no cars on the road and Portinatx itself pretty dead - I think there was not a single shop open). Then off to Benirras and to SanAn. The countryside is beautiful with lots of green everywhere and white cherry(?) blossom. Forested areas look exactly like in the summer. Surprisingly, some cafes in the small towns on the way were open and well patronized by locals.
SanAn seems to be expecting some carnival procession, the police were busy evacuating cars from the street by the harbor. Please forgive my lack of excitement about the carnival season - I hate it. Hope I will be able to drive out of SanAn.
In general, the optical difference to the summer is much less than I expected, but then, I always find time to enjoy the landscape even in the summer
It is very relaxing with no parties to hurry to. Love it, but it will sure get boring quickly. So tomorrow I am flying to Mallorca in the evening and then home to Germany.If the weather stays good tomorrow, will probably try climbing Sa Talaia and maybe hiking to one of the watch towers (can they all be climbed?) I have only been on the one overlooking Atlantis.
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So till now, I have been to 4 pirate watch towers (the ones visited today, plus the one facing Formentera and the one overlooking Es Vedra). I could enter only the last one. So I wonder how many other towers exist (I know there is one more in the Northeast), and more important, can they be entered???
