Ria’s chiringuito at Cala Pada beach is hosting a “summer of love” party on Thursday:

dresscode: 1967
turn on, tune in, drop out!
food and drinks, music, peace and love!

Recovery is well underway from sunday’s launch, and we’d like to thank all of the survivors with the stamina to have dealt with the launch of Sandy’s Cocktail Bar and the re-opening of Bambuddha Grove for helping us.

Particular thanks go out to Jamie who lent us the 72” TV that nearly killed us in the shifting, and to Crispin of Sandy’s, who allowed us to beat down his door after some four hours sleep, in order to have a back-up 42” plasma on site at the gig, at Brisa de la Mar on Cala Pada beach.

As it turned out, with double back-up for the technology – two computers (Mac & PC), plus two TVs (72” &D 42”) – we ran out of credit on the 3G mobile Vodafone connection providing the live internet feed… (All present laughed their tits off – don’t you just love Ibiza sometimes?)

Most of all we have a huge debt of gratitude to repay to the Lost Mountain Orchestra, who would have been perfectly within their rights to have chucked us out when we hit our first technological failure. Instead they ended up buying us drinks at the Cardamom Club till the early hours.
What lovely people…

(we would have photos but for some reason we were busy – but the local press will fill that void)…

We are happy and proud to announce the launch of our new website – ibizaA-Z.com – which has been put together with the latest innovations on the internet.

The launch party will take place at the Brisa de la Mar restaurant on Cala Pada beach next Sunday, April 1st from 2 p.m.
The Lost Mountain Orchestra will be providing the live music and the restaurant serving the cooked food to your table on the beach, if you like…

The website is completely revolutionary, in that the navigation system works entirely on Google maps, making it multi-lingual.

The plan is to take the everyday ‘A-Z’ ~ (yellow pages) to the next logical level, so that it actually shows you on a map where the front door of the place is, that you’re seeking. The next step is to take you through the front door and give you a virtual tour – but one step at a time, eh? …

Amongst the many new things that it can already do: it can, for example, plot bus routes telling you what time the next bus passes your stop (and if you miss that one it’ll tell you the time of the one after that!).

Many thanks in anticipation, we look forward to seeing you at the party.

Ibiza A-Z.com

P.S. If you do plan to come, and wish to enjoy a meal with your music please call Nicole, who is arranging the bookings for the restaurant, in order to reserve a table – as they may have to arrange to cater for more as demand has already exceeded our expectations.
Her phone number is 636 417 724.

There aren’t too many things you’d rather do than sit on a beach in march and listen to friends play live music while chatting to everyone else you know….

Ibiza in the off-season, when direct flights are as rare as hobby horse do dos, is a time to enjoy a lonely walk along a deserted beach, where the only footprints are likely to be your own.
And if this is your dream, you would have been heartbroken if you had chanced upon the beach of Cala Pada this afternoon.

The Brisa de la Mar restaurant employed the services of the Lost Mountain Orchestra, for no particularly good reason, and were booked to capacity days before the gig. Fortunately, it’s hard to fence off a beach here, as all are a public right of way, so even those of us too slow or arrogant to book got to see the show.

The band comprise two vocalists from the land of the valleys and male voice choirs. However their names are Mal and Katy – Katy is the one wielding the double bass. Charles, on the fiddle, hails from the New York Philharmonic, and recently took up the harmonica. Volker, the German guitarist is also the accomplished producer and brains behind the experiment. Their performance was superb, as ever, and they well deserve their noisy and numerous regular following. It’s little wonder that island restaurants are queuing up to book them…

Their encore was slightly compromised by the removal of Alister (who runs the very successful Friday night party – Empire – at the local night club, Guarana) to take a King Canute photo opportunity whilst asleep in a chair…

But everybody left smiling to muse upon another quiet afternoon in Ibiza…