Ibiza tale of 2 holidays
September 19-25th
Got invited on a joint stag do of two good friends. First time we've done Ibiza as stag party and I was a little uneasy about it.
Always wanted to hike in Ibiza so the Mrs gracefully allowed me to go a few days early in my own, as long as I didn't just go clubbing....
Tues - arrived 10am, car rental from the Goldcar in the airport. Plan was a hike with Stivi but the forecasted thunderstorms resulted in that being cancelled due to insurance/rules, not Stivi's fault, just one of them things - hopefully get out with him next time. Headed to San Juan for a nosey, excellent goats cheese salad at Sabores Naturals.
Then travelled north to hike in the rain near cala es Cabaret, did some cliff jumping, visited some caves. Found a big cave, which looked invited to shelter from the rain but as I dropped in a couple were enjoying theirselves so I hurriedly reversed out
finished the walk, drove to Portinatx, fancies a beer in Jimmez favourite shack, looked closed but ppl were drinking under the shelter - still not sure if it was open or shut! Did the 7km circular walk past the lighthouse, dropped down to the pretty Cala d'en Serra bat but again the beach bar was shut. Fun exploring the graffiti in the abandoned hotel.
Headed to Benirras for the sunset, few drummers but very small crowd with the weather of day - max 30ppl on the beach. Finished the day meeting my sister-in-law and Mother-in-law for food in Bar Ulivans opposite the nice church of Santa Gertrudis. Finally checked in at Hotel Brisa near midnight...long day, just need some sleep but found out what lively hotels are like for 'normal' tourists. Party directly opposite me, door open until 2/3am then the clubbers came back from 5:30am
can't complain, be me in a few days..
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Weds - if I could plan a perfect day in Ibiza this would be it!
As the clubbers came back at 5:30am I headed out to hike Sa Talaia for sunrise. Easy enough to follow the track up from San Josep with a head torch, watched the lightening over the island and did a nice circular walk down the east side of the hill. Quick breakfast at Destino de tapas sat in the lovely courtyard.
Drove to Cala D'Hort where I finally made it down to Atlantis, had some fun exploring and swimming before heading back up and other spine of the hill to the pirate tower. Had it to my own, was wonderfully watching the world go by. Can't believe how easy the walk to the pirate tower is, I've failed before trying to go over the top in flips and didn't find the easy path!
Back to San An for a beer in Golden Buddha, lunch at Davids then chilled by the pool.
Caught the bus to Ibiza Town, ate Cheviches at the Pervian bar on Calle de la Virgen which was good. Also handy to use the little pass to the harbour where Solomun absolutely smashed the free party in the port. Crowd were buzzing in parry mode, chatted to loads of nationalities. Shared a taxi to san an with two workers who invited me on a pub crawl through the West End to the Ship Inn where they worked - hardly bought a beer and ended the night nicely.
Thursday - 18 mates were arriving around 11am, so timed returning the car with catching a taxi back. I took a bottle hierbas as a welcome gift
Hotel Pacific which was in a good location in San An, close to town/bus station, decent enough pool - food was low standard.
2nd part of the holiday was one big party...
Got smashed around the pool, the boys were dressed in well, dresses, big baby outfits - you get the script. We drank around San An, Itaca is one of my favourite spots but like all the bars down there not playing dance music. Sunset strip, then the west end. We split around 1/2am, 4 of us bought 77e tickets for Hi for Tales of Us/Sven Vath. My mate lost his ticket in the taxi journey, paid another 85e on the door
it's a bit of a blur, plenty of snapchats, explored the different rooms as two hadn't been since Space closed. Think it was rammed, we stayed until the last tune then headed back to drink on the balcony.
Fri - smashed around the pool throughout the day then ran a massive bar bill up at Ibiza Rocks Bar and Bay Bar, West end and then Defected at Eden. Had a good laugh until the death, then a few more at the hotel.
Sat - groundhog day around the pool, had a ball then headed to Ushuaia for Ants. I'll be honest at this point I was feeling it, felt sick walking in and needed a rest but didn't really find anywhere so ploughed through. Music was good, we had a laugh with the people around us.
When it finished I realised I hadn't eaten since Thursday morning, no wonder I didn't feel right. So headed to CIAO CIAO for some salmon pasta, we were flying but the food went down well. Met back up with friends on the strip before two of us headed to El Row. Everyone except me had at 10am flight that morning. We did shifts watching my friend's favourite Eats Everything and then my love for the terrace until around 6:30am. Left my mate in reception at 6:57am hats off to him getting the flight home
I was properly Ill the Sunday waiting for the 10pm flight, everything had caught up with me. I genuinely didn't think I could make the flight home, sat outside the airport at 9pm telling the Mrs I couldn't get the flight due to being sick
Think I had sun stroke. Had a massive week at work lined up, took me until Wednesday to feel fine and then got a text "booking Ibiza for X's stag do next August, you in..." Decided I'll everything the same as this year but sit in the shade
left at midnight to go to Palmarama!
€17 for a ‘vodka’ lemon which was mainly just water off the ice cubes not what i call ok
