Really? That's still a thing!?
Really! Who gives a sh1t?
(you've got the same colour hands
)
TBH the reaction only came from a small group of 3 girls on the top floor of the bar inside, where the restrooms were. I was just waiting for my ladyfriend to come out from the woman's bathroom, and these girls got all omg when they saw her with me. It made me feel it was cuz of race but I don't really know I guess. We all talked a little bit too after. So yeah, I overstated what I said earlier, as I made it seem like some crazy thing when yeah no one else really cared.
July 20th -First Time Visit to Formentera, Solomon Live in Ibiza Port, Meeting with @diver !, Hyte w/ Caribou, Loco Dice, Robert Hood, Chris Liebing, John Talabot
I set my alarm for like 10 or 10:30 AM to try and finally do Formentera after I got back to my hotel at like 5 AM or so from the night before (told ya guys nothing too crazy happened lol), and yes I did manage to get up. But I was seriously contemplating for more rest as I was feeling so tired, but realized quickly that if I didn't do Formentera today, it was gonna be harder to do it later in my trip because I'd be moving hotels to Es Canar From the 23rd- 25th which would make it harder to get to get there, and also because I had more clubbing events planned that would prevent me from it as well (the usual 'problem' in Ibiza)
I gathered my strength and got ready quickly. The Aquabus was leaving at Noon from Ibiza Town but I had to take the bus to Ibiza town first before anything. I just managed to grab the 10:30 or 10:45 AM bus from the San Antonio bus station. This bus was really busy, standing room only. It was different passing by Amnesia during the daytime I must say, and I realized this was one of the few times I had gotten up early in Ibiza to do something touristy, since I always focus on the nighttime shit!
^^^Nice view of Dalt Villa in the day. Anyways I exchanged my Ibiza Spotlight ticket at a small place by the pier for a real one and went to the McDonald's afterwards to grab a bite to eat. Was considering something else but I wanted to keep things simple and sorta fast as I had like only 30 mins to spare until the boat arrived. Got a Big Mac Meal, but my wifi wasn't working there for some reason.
I saw people lining up outside for the Aquabus boat. There were a lot and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to sit, but everything went smoothly as i found a place on the lower deck. The whole boat ride took like 50 mins or so.
I also had a push pedal bike included with my trip, which I was able to exchange for easily when I had arrived at a nearby shop. The bike was banged up, the gears struggled to change at times but it did the work. I didn't like the basket at the back of it though because it was hard to move my leg over it but I think worst of all I shouldn't have taken a helmet as everyone else I saw didn't have one! I thought I seemed pretty dorky having one afterwards, but I was remembering the rules back home where you get fined without a helmet, yes even on a push pedal bike.
I rode up to the general direction of Illetes. I was immediately struck by how serene this place seemed, even with the tourists there. I went to the first beach I saw, it was a smaller one before Illetes. The water was clearer and nicer overall than what I had seen in Ibiza. Took a small swim but decided that there was enough preamble and it was time to get going to Illetes! There were signs and stuff everywhere, andI passed by these lake areas but it seemed like they had another purpose, does anybody know what these are?
There were a lot of people when I got to Illetes. I thought it was very nicely shaped and liked this part of it the most. I locked my bike up with my helmet hung on the handle unsecured. I decided to risk this as I didn't know what else to do with the damn helmet, but Formentera seemed rather unimposing so I didn't worry too much.
There was a part where it was sandy but still sorta submerged underwater that I liked walking over on. I felt like I was really on vacation on Illetes and I could see why it was ranked so highly amongst beaches in Europe. BUT I liked Llevant way more, which was the beach on the other side of Illetes, as it looked like a way better version of Playa d'en bossa and truly looked Carribean like with the lenghty shoreline and water colour.
It felt so much nicer to me, plus because of Illetes' popularity, there weren't a lot of people at Llevant which added to how much bigger and nicer this beach was. The waves were stronger which was probably another turnoff to folks but I liked bodysurfing with them. The water temp also felt warmer too than Illetes even though both beaches were so close to each other. I spent a lot of time on this beach, just in the water with the waves. I really needed this trip to get a break from the clubbing madness of Ibiza!
I think it was like 4 PM or 5 PM and I wanted to grab something to eat and possibly do a little more exploring before taking the 8 PM boat back to catch Solomon at Ibiza Port, which was a last second event that was added the week before that I was pumped in seeing. I biked down some long way to the resto at the end of Llevant, named Restaurante Tanga. It was pretty expensive, I wanted to try their Paella but they would only make it for min two people. I biked back to La Savina as I was kinda losing time at this point, especially for grabbing something to eat. I *think* I settled on Bellavista Restaurante where I grabbed a Corona and a 4 cheese pizza. It took a bit of time to make and I was gonna miss my boat, so I ate a bit of it and had it to go. WOuld have liked to have sat and eat it in peace but the next boat afterwards was like at 10 PM. The pizza was sorta blah tasting, definately not as good as the pizza at Zanzibar. I basically passed out on the boat, really beat from all the sun and bike riding.
We reached the pier at like 9'ish and I could hear Mr. Solly's beats at the other end of the pier. It wasn't loud at all by the McDonald's area but as soon as you start walking down further to where the stairs go up to the gay street, that's where you could find the stage setup with Solomon playing. This guy was slated to play for 4 hours and my plan was to meet Diver there but I was really so tired and I couldn't bear it. I spotted a new remix of Cafe del Mar, the same one that Luciano played at Cocoon the week before which I still think was the Marcel Janovsky Remix of the track. It was nice to hear such a classic Balearic track outdoors but I couldn't properly enjoy it as I was so tired. All sorts of people came out for this, yes even people brought their dogs! There were paraemedics on stand by as well just in case some one OD'd I guess lol. The crowd was decent for this, lots of room to move around still. Thought maybe they coulda done more production wise (some of Pacha's finest Go Go dancers wouldn't hurt on stage) and the sound was too bassy but I really can't complain too much about a free 4 hour Solomun set that you could bring your own booze to. I saw the videos afterwards and it looks like it really got busy later on.
But yeah I took off pretty much around 930 i think, and took a bus back to San Antonio, completely missing Diver. After a short nap we met up and had some drinks. We were supposed to meet up at Itaca and get drinks there but it was too busy, so we just to Orange Corner instead. They had like a a two drink special going on.
We took a cab to Amnesia and we there close to 2 AM I think, much later than expected. I know I had missed John Talabot who I really wanted to see. He was supposed to start at 11 PM but it turns out he couldn't make his flight which sucked but at the same was good for me as it made me feel less guilty about coming so late. My guestlist worked for us, lady at the front remembered me which is a sign of being on the island for too long lol.
The main room seemed like it was blocked off, so everyone was on the terrace for Caribou performing live. There was a stage setup on the opposite end of the booth and it was a nice new setup for me.
Really enjoyed this live electronic rock performance. I really appreciated something new like this, nice seeing an actual band instead of a DJ. Some really nice tracks, i'm not too familiar with their work but I guess should be since they're not based too far from me in Toronto! After their performance, Loco Dice started up on the same stage, but we decided to check out Robert Hood (as Floorplan) in the main room. Good blend of house and techno, he played Floorplan- Tell You No Lie which I managed to ID later on. Was really nice hearing a fun housey set like his, it was completely different from Caribou's music but still was nice to hear. Asides from his set the only other housey music I heard was from Jose Padilla at Sol House and A Man Called Adam at Pikes on my trip.
We made it back to the terrace afterwards where Loco Dice was in full swing. I wasn't really getting into it, despite Loco trying his best to do different things on the decks. It was all tech-house and I guess I"m really over this sound. We still stayed until 5 AM'sih or so before heading back to San Antonio.
^^This was one of my last few shots of Amnesia from this year's trip. It was slowly downing down on me that my trip was heading to a close soon.
)
(they really spot drunken/wasted blokes 
