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This is the final day of March, which indicates
our bizarre summer tourist season is around the corner as
folk begin to flock back to paradise in search of a place
to live and a job to keep themselves here during the crazy
summertime on this unique island of Ibiza.
Ibiza's has two seasons each year one is
winter and the other is summer and currently the countryside
looks absolutely magnificent with an abundance of multi-coloured
fields full of wildflowers and a continuous kaleidoscopic
hedgerow running alongside each and every road and lane throughout
this exquisite island.
The local bar owners, restaurant proprietors
and shopkeepers are now quiet busy cleaning, completing necessary
alterations and painting and decorating their business premises
in preparation for the start of what should yet again be another
exceptional busy summer tourist season here on Ibiza.
Living it up here during summertime isn't
normally easy after wintertime for the locals in their own
natural environment especially dealing with the hordes of
holidaymakers tantrums, high temperatures with overcrowding
and the must-see long queues outside the island's primary
discothèques.
Furthermore, this summer will probably be
more hectic and possibly a foreseeable financial benefit from
the "Foot-and-Mouth" for the major dance music scene
here on Ibiza. If the regular summer festivals in the UK are
wiped out through this disease until September, music fans
might have to travel abroad and this may very well bring thousands
more of those normally mud-clad festivalgoers here to the
island for their alfresco entertainment this summer.
Obviously, we hope it will not be necessary
to disinfect every dance music fan passing through here during
this summer with steadily worsening hygiene problems which
could be put on hold by a disease that the island knows little
about and understands even less.
Nonetheless, we will publish within the
next week or so this summer's itemized schedule of all the
island's major night club events and festivals with a DJs
line-up when each club can confirm a summer programme of their
individual party nights. I believe that this summer's opening
night at Es Paradis Terrenal in San Antonio is currently set
for Friday 11th May, which is much earlier then during previous
years.
Ending up time: "All victims are equal
and none is more equal than others."
Gary Hardy
garyhardy@ibizahistoryculture.com
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