Funny; as this door picture is here because KR thought, as they walked us up to check in to our room, "wow they have a lot of storage areas", but it was actually our hotel (hostal in spain) door to our room.
Picture of post-unpacking on bed and view off balcony from room.
After arrival at the hotel, we quickly went to the beach to take a dip, ahhh so nice
!
We could hardly contain our excitement at finally getting to get into the beautiful blue
Mediterranan
!
(
And, after 4
F
U
L
L, hot days in
Barcelona with no pool or trips to the beach.
It is really
H
O
T to us here because we are not used to all the humidity
!
After relaxing for just a bit, we decided we needed to make one last push to go eat since it had been 7 hours since our last meal
!
This is not a good thing for a long day, so off to get a taxi and head to the bigger town so that we could get groceries as well.
After much searching, looking at menus and trying to decide which places seemed good, we finally just chose a place to eat on their large patio.
One thing we have learned in spain that is different from the US, even what could be the worst place to eat is the best!!
Veggie lasagna for KR
but, oh so rich with all the amazing cheeses and spagetti for TR and of course fresh ground parmasaen and incredible fresh bakery bread and oil and vinegar.
Next, off to the grocery store, which we find out is closed by 10:00 pm, so we rush there by 9:30 and it was cleaned out like it was a
U.
S. store before a huge storm or some natural disaster.
We had noticed that kind of situation in
Croatia
(2 yrs ago
)--we think the stores here just dont keep the shelves full from day to day; they go through their goods then re-stock before the beginming of the day and go through everything again. Odd things - bug spray is in a large plastic container, all the bug spray cans in there with a lock that you bring to the front so they can take out what you want.
Also, the little liquid cartridges they had for their plug-in mosquito preventers are kept in the locked boxes.
We're wondering if people abuse the stuff like they do with spray paint and
Sudafed products in the
U.
S...
?
Also, us crazy americans don't know how to do anything right in the grocery store, so apparently individual items like apples and packaged items need to have the price marked on them, so after much
Catalan
Spanish that we dont understand
(diff than
Castillian/
Mexican
Spanish
!
) and louder
& louder
(non understandable
) directions from the cashier, off goes tr to get some prices or tags, but couldnt figure it out so just grabbed a packaged thing of apples instead while Kr is waiting and the line is gettin bigger and bigger behind us, with lots of people a little frustrated with us.
Also, it is like the stores that you need your own bag and people dont really seem to use many carts, so mayhem caused by the americans not knowing the program.
Many
"lo siento
's
(
"
I'm sorry's
" later and the little
Spaniard cashier who kept exclaiming louder in
Catalan
(so we could
"hear
"
) was very sweet and nice to us as we left.
Another nice cashier at the store called us a taxi, who got there lickety split and brought us back, where we absolutely passed out until 9 am
Pictures in ibiza
Salads from restaurant - no description can describe these salads
View from where we had lunch
1 - plane ride to ibiza went without a problem and our transfer to ibiza port was quick and easy
2 - arrived at port and needed to find our tickets for the ferry, get lunch and find the temp luggage locker rental place as well so easier to explore ibiza
3 - decided to stick with the 3:30 pm ferry and put our bags in the locker and found a great place to eat right at the port
p.s. arrived about 11:45 am after 6:00 wake up, not bad
4 - shopping led us to a "flower power " themed store as ibiza was an original hippie town and they had some great shops
5 - saw some huge yachts--up close view of where they photograph all those
Hollywood stars that visit
Ibiza
!
6 - thought our ferry was at 3:30 and Terry hauled both backpacks to what we thought was our ferry, but said 17:00 hours which was not right, kr goes to office and flags TR to come over and ferry is somewhere else and at 16:00 hrs, so 2 diet cokes and 2 fruit smoothies later we get on the ferry
It was a mad dash to load on the luggage as the europeans really go crazy getting things on and the ferry guy yelled at KR because her to go cup could spill on the luggage. All the luggage stacks in one big pile
7 - 1/2 hour on ferry and we get to a hot and humid formentera to find the transport people were very confused as our times were a 1/2 hour off, but got us hooked up finally to hostal sol i mar.
Very nice bus driver from
Romania who's worked here 14 yrs.
Ahhh, hotel on the beach
