Just in case there is anyone out there who thinks that Ibiza closes when the last disco shuts its doors for the season, we have decided tell you a smidgen of what went on last weekend. Agriculture is Ibiza's second biggest industry and over 25,000 people turned up at the Can Caus traditional Ibicencan products shop and restaurant near Santa Gertrudis, for the annual agricultural show. One of the exciting highlights of the event was the raffle with a thoroughbred horse as the prize - ticket 479 won but still hasn't collected the prize!
Meanwhile, down on the Vara de Rey in Ibiza, Folk groups from the island and places as far apart as Murcia and Asturias performed traditional music and dances. In San Carlos on Sunday, Italian Flamenco-Jazz guitarist El Sciubba played works by artists as diverse as Bach and Miles Davis, and to cap it all, in Playa den Bossa the Ibicencan festival of rock music continued with West (the artists formerly known as Gaia) and Snowmen Circus. And if anybody was feeling peckish, the newly formed Ibiza Gastronomic Society had cooked up a storm of local dishes in the Royal Plaza Hotel!
It just goes to show that as winter approaches the island provides forms of entertainment for visitors and residents alike which are perhaps a little more wide ranging than its world-famous club scene.