IPesa is not its season. The Grand Resort Hotels are closed, sealed beach bars, and they can be able to have superior reopening parties in the summer again in late April. By July, the ratio will return to 20 visitors for each resident, but at the present time, the island is empty as it happens.
The sun rises though, the air is bright and warm, and the sky is salted. The crowds are still gathering, here and there. in Hog racesFor example, at Sant Rafael Hippodrome in the center of the island. The tradition of Gharib island is supposed to be with the vehicles during the occupation of Ibiza Roman, sport requires knights from riding vehicles with small wheels that were harnessed to horses that maintain a quick and semi -pace, as if they were slightly late for an appointment. Children and elderly children seem to love them, as the latter put small stakes on races and drop shots of brandy in their coffee. Horse, Maldiva de Bij, comes the distant third.
During the same weekend, I also visit Mercadilo Saint JordiOutside the city of IBIZA, the Souhan Market with a crowded valleys in Velodrum, cycling where mood and music is unexpectedly vibrant. DJ resident plays a wise collection early in coma and Disco fills the race hole with day dancers.
Then there is the Sunday “Hippy” market in the Sant Joan de Labritja village. The morning mass has just ended in the parish church and integrate the group with shoppers and Dadar around the main square. The band plays the role of Bob Marley’s covers and some people who smile from flowers smile and swing like 1969.
Jean -Michel Vuite, a senior statesman in the island’s creative society, was standing in front of the ordinary guitarist of the band. “I first came to IBIZA in 1970 as one of those long troubles,” he says when the band takes a break. “LSD and all of that. I later realized that what I loved in this place was not just people and culture, but rather the energy of the earth itself. It is a classification, magic, peaceful and feminine, and if you are sensitive, you can control it.”
In the summer, Futer helps people to do this in the long -range Namaste Namaste Namaste Namaste, which was held in the other historical IBIZA market, Las Dalias. But winter may be a better time to capture the signal that he is talking about, when there is frankly a lower intervention.
“People are always asking about hidden gemstones in Ibiza,” says Boris Bono, who makes his work to feed the Sunday group with vegetable pizza in his garden restaurant. “For me, the real hidden jewel is winter.”
Unlike most chefs and owners, Puno maintains his institution open throughout the year. “I live here, work here, my children at school – what will I do too?”
“I am the best winter,” Behzad Behpour, an Iranian -born painter who works from a studio on the second floor overlooks the market. “You can clarify your mind a little, and customize time to create.” Around us hanging large paintings from Behpour, which makes IBIZAN icons (club owners, adult DJs, ordinary celebrities) as servants of the island’s presidential gods-basically the goddess of the ancient Phoenician Moon, Tanit. “I definitely think it’s an island for artists, and comment when you are quiet part of the artistic process.”
His Kurdish friend, Baram Bourmand, known as Bahrji, is also a new painter and musician in the new era, and another veteran warrior in the IPzan scene. “Do not get winter like this anywhere,” says Baharji. It also agrees on the magnetic clouds of the place, but it reminds me that the magnet also repels. “If the island does not want you, it will push you away,” he says.
Al -Jazeera is not fortified against the market forces, and the high rents were pressuring the artists off Ibiza, as Baraji says: “Finding 2000 euros per month is very difficult, but I will remain here, and I play music until I die on stage.” The magic of the summer island, the last upgrade of the club’s culture, and the construction and purchase of luxury villas and apartments, all have effects on the remainder when the VIP crowd ends when the summer ends.
“The local population ends with tourist prices for everything, even for roasted bread and coffee,” says Martina Grif, on board her sailboat off the Santa Olieria de Rio port. Greef is the island of life, the German parents came to IBIZA with this original flow of hippies. She has a stake in her ship, and she is called The Al Mar, and covers exorbitant laying fees by operating the charter services in the peak season.
She says most customers only want to sail to Formantra Island, “because this is what they saw on Instagram.” The strait between the sister islands is similar to a fast way for yacht and phrases in the summer, and the short trip is not very inspiring to Mariner. “But in the winter, we can go to where we want,” says Grave, as he turns 60 degrees to the wind before giving me the wheel.
Sailing lessons provide their livelihoods in the quieter months, and even as a land I cannot see the call. Get the corners properly and the boat is only off. In a short talisman, I feel as if you were flying the boat over the open water, while the low sun falls behind an old altar to Tanit over Cap Des Llibrell.
Inside, Lucas Prats puts me in one of the villas about what he had the ownership of his grandfather, Can Lluc, looking for the sea from the hills of the garden and olive groves. Agroturismo is a competitive company these days, attracting visitors away from coastal hotels to the farms transferred. For Prats, there is no reason that prevents IBiza from building his profile outside peak times, in the same way Mallorca. “We have a better weather than they do at this time of year,” he claims.
“Visitors who come in the winter love him – we just need more promotion.”
The next morning, I got a walk through very slope forests with Manuel Ehrensperger from IBIZA. He is the former CEO Swiss from the luxury brands of fashion, and he is now leading “comprehensive” increases in the fiercest parts of the island, where runs grow on the stone terraces that have long been abandoned in the growth and drying of figs. “People say I changed my life, but this is also luxury.”
One of the real believers of the healing power of nature and silence, calls me ehrensperger to spend seven minutes in silent meditation over the light cave, where the water glows in a deep cosmic blue color. He says it is very dangerous to jump here, but I can fall into the sea from the rocks on the other side, and I have all for myself – another pleasure in the winter.
Well, not completely for myself. While thinking about it, two of the dolphins violated the surface below. It is a little cold here to be honest, and a little higher than I would like. I am not one of Sufism, to talk about energies or vibrations. But I feel that these dolphins tell me to jump. The goddess Tanit wants me to – the soul of the island itself. So jump.
Piar Work Phrases to Ibiza from Religiously And other Spanish ports main righteousness. The residence was provided before Can LLUC (Canluc.com), which offers negotiable prices to rent the villa outside the peak season. Hog races are held throughout the year St. Ravel Heplurom (Hipodromsantrafel.com). Saint Jordi market It is held every Saturday and St. Joan Hebe Market Every Sunday. Sailing lessons (200 euros For three trips) with Martina Grif, It was booked through Ibiza Kayak boatsHikes with Ehrensperger ((30 euros For three hours) through IBIZA
