The last tourists leave the island on 31st October like the last chopper leaving Saigon.
On November 1st the natives swathe themselves in swaddling scarves like cossacks on the Steppes.
On November 2nd the Christmas lights go up!
So what's the miracle? Well, many years experience of the Ibiza retail sector has taught us that if you go out looking to buy a specific thing, no matter how many shops you look in, you only ever find it in the last shop, if at all. If you do find it, buy it there and then, because it won't be there the next day or ever again.
Our task today (sounds like Challenge Anneka) was to get a rug for our chateau style boudoir, a task which i gave up on just as I got out of bed this morning. Anyway, blow me down, the first housey shop we entered had the very rug, and, get this, 30% OFF!!! Following guideline number 2 above, we bought it.
Novices that we are at buying the first thing we see, we continued to window shop and bugger me, in the very next housey shop, there was another, even better, more suitable floor coverer/feet keeperwarmerer! So we bought that! OK, so it was twice the price of the first one, but who cares?
Novices that we are at buying two things that we really like, we continued, and lo and behold in housey shop number 3 there was another freaking rug that was just the job.
It was a rug too far. I had to go and cool off in the crowds blocking the pavement in the newstand on the corner of the Vara de Rey and from there saw the Christmas illuminations. Thank you baby Jesus for the gift of shopping
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