Any recommendations for 14/15/16th Sep? Missus is over with our 2. (21 & 23)
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His books on anxiety and mental health are excellent. Highly recommend them.
The comfort book
Reasons to stay alive
Notes on a nervous planet.
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Thanks for these recommendations. Definitely need them as election day looms…
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Anyone know of anything interesting happening on the island between 15-19th October? Thinking of possibly making a trip and could be swayed if there’s something good on…
Pikes site briefly crashed but guesties now going out for the 23rd
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Here is good. Formentera outpost from Catalan chef, Nandu Jubany. Largely locals/Spanish clientele. The cheesecake is unreal. Added bonus is if you time it right you can watch the sun set back over Es Vedra/Ibiza while drinking vermut.:
Also good, by some lads from Emilia-Romagna over in Es Pujols. Adriatic seafood vibes:
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Malanga have shut down. Which is shite on every level
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That’s really bad news…
Can Carlitos is legendary.
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I might be there then. My friend going out there for her 50th with the crazy gang in tow. Was thinking I might go Thursday night for literally 48hrs.
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Do it… I done a few 2 day trips and they were great fun, one time I had to go to a work party the night I arrived back home I was at Destino closing earlier that day and the office rang asking do I want Chicken,Beef or Fish at the dinner…
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We’re doing the 48-hr 'splash’n’dash next month.
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I’m still working on that date 
I’m over with the Mrs later in October
I’ve been out to Formentera twice this Summer with my Spanish missus, and can highly recommend 3 places to eat
Kiosko Manolito- an Italian run Chiringuito doing excellent daytime seafood- the lobster pasta for 2 at €35 , we had several times, and I daydream about it
Restaurante Tanga- once again, up on that North pointing peninsula- big place, excellent paella at a very fair price and far cheaper than elsewhere on the island- great setting especially if you get a shaded table outside
For the evening, 190 Pasos (at Apt.Carabela) is inventive cooking and excellent value. Asturian Chef inspired by both Japan and Mexico, despite having never been to the former. The kind of meals you’d pay about 3 times as much for in London. It’s a kind of nowhere location, but worth a punt as the quality, value and creativity are top notch- the most memorable meals I have had this year
All 3 places were recommended to me by a “Fixer” I know who covers both islands, and knows we’re not all about the show and glitz, but the actual food and value ie the places he goes to keep away from his rich and privileged clients who get rinsed
4 flights to and from Ibiza this Summer convinced me that Pikes- which I last visited over 20 years back, is not for me, based on the utterly vacuous, style and intelligence challenged weapons discussing the place on said flights.
We encountered such weapons on our final ferry back to Ibiza- two Essex blokes marvelling at their own pioneering derring-do and wanderlust.
We were party to one of the most stupid conversations I have ever heard, involving people not on drugs. As the ferry left port, one asked the other if the land mass we were heading towards was Ibiza. He had of course done the journey from Ibiza already. Things got worse:
“You know uvvers will just be sitting by the pools or whatever for 2 weeks. But us, we’re different. We’ve gone and seen amazing beaches and stuff. We’ve got stories to tell. Had adventures. We’re making history”
Fuck’s sake. They’d used an every half hour ferry service. The pricks.
“Your Grandad was a true free spirit. Legend has it, he once did a day trip to Formentera. You can only marvel at his courage”
Saying that, these weapons were exceptional- as in few Brits hang around much on Formentera, meaning the Italians and Spanish keep it chilled. Long may that continue
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The trick with Pikes is to make sure you bring enough like-minded folk out with you so that the whoppers are signigicantly diluted.
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What we talking? 200? 
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I think this could be my favourite ever post on TP
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I don’t think I’ve ever even met 200 people