hello dear marti
my name is david i'm 24 years of age soon i live in tel aviv israel and have been clubbing for about 4 years
after returning from last years ibiza i kept looking for more information about that amazing experience called ibiza
my friend eran (as you allready know) found your website and directed me to it
i had a great time reading everthing you had to say about the diffrent aspects of clubbing in ibiza
not to mention the great pic's of the la troya
in fact i had such a great time that i decided i had to share with you my version of ibiza too
i think you'll have fun reading what i have to say
any way here goes
in the summer of 2002 after two intensive years of israely clubbing (which were quite decent at the time)
i decided it was time to see the real thing
me and 3 other friends (for one of which (guy) it was to be the forth year in a row there) landed at ibiza at the 28.8 which is wensday and thats how my addiction to the magic island began
being all straight (no that it makes a diffrence) we decided to go to the pacha to check out subliminal sessions
the morning after we arrived at the space la troya carry on where i was first intoduced to the hard gay partys of ibiza after a few seconds there i took my place at the central stage and spent the next few hours dancing my legs off on it
here are a few pic's that captured those moments
in case you havent guessd im the topless guy on the right
anyway on with our story
atmosphere at the terrace was amazing and i couldnt stop smiling for all the time i was there
also i meet an amazing swiss girl who showed a a great time for all the time i was on the island (but thats a compleatley diffrent story)
coming out of the the space i kept wondering
"if this was only the carry on than last night i made a big mistake not going to the amnesia"
that thought kept hunting me for the next two years of course all the amazing storys that my friend's in israel told me about the la troya asesina made it even harder for the time to pass
of course as an ibiza virgin i did all the famus venues such as cream -PVD (at the time i thought it doesnt get much better then that ,man was i wrong),ministry at pacha,the matinee after at space (just like the la troya carry on just with a diffrent name),sundays at space which was a very hard party (hard meaning too hot too crowded accpet of course the indoors sessions),and last and also in this case least manumission where i had a pretty lousy time perhaps due too accsesive drinking but also i didnt really connect to the privlige
i came back home
and for the next couple of months i missed the island very badly and i swore i would come back agien
at 2003 i worked hard all year yet i still didnt manage to save enough to come back for another week
so i stayd disappointed in israel and waited another year while my friends from last year did go for 10 days this time
the summer of 2004 arrived this time things were on the right track i had the money i had two weeks of vacation days from work and i had the pepole to go along
this time we were a party of 5 pepole including my friend guy (six ibiza's in a row)
and also eran who you allready know for whom it was his first time
at monday the 2.8 we landed agien and the ibiza airport sign never looked better to me
upon arrival me and guy droped the others at the hotel and drove off to circoloco
my first time there i was kinda pleased that i didnt go there on my first ibiza tour
couse that party is defenitly not for ibiza rookies
i didnt get a chance to drink enough there so i was sober the whole time i was there
whice didnt stop me from having an incredible time meeting spanish dutch and all sorts
(not to mention the hard gay germans who later on i invented them the nick name "deutsche" soon i will run into them agien)
here a couple of excellent deutche pic's
and some more
and just a little bit more
i also got to meet fernando from the XXX HOUSE you wrote about at the site
who offered me a job (work that is not a diffrent kind of job ;) ) as a dancer sadly i turned him down since i couldnt stay in ibiza more than a week
after that i got to meet many other strange pepole including marge simpson and the gorila man
(marge simpson as you may have guessed)
heres a few atmosphere pics from the DC10
later on we also cought roger sanchez at pacha,carl cox at space
and then came the big day
wensday night
i waited for this night over 2 years
guy told me so many stories about what was waiting for me
throughout my clubbing years i got to go to hundreds of gay partys in israel
but nothing could prepare me for what i was about to see that night
here we are preparing for tonight me in the middle guy on the right with the zebra suite and another friend on the left
and heres me and eran (and no we are not gay in despite these pictures )
at 1:30 we arrived at the amnesia
in the begining everything looked very ordinary
just another nice party even kind of empty
this wasnt what i expected to see
this certainly did look like the greatest party in the world
small groups of spanish and italians roaming around
the music was very low and nothing really intresting was going on
but guy relaxed me and promised me that i wouldnt recognize the place in a few hours
man oh man was he right
in about an hour
the club was packed
and from that point it all seemed like a beautiful movie that refused to end until 8:00
me and eran couldnt leave each other
about at 4:30 baby marcelo got to the d'j booth and gace the crowd the la troya song making everybody there scream out aloud
later on we stumbled agien into the deutsche who are all aranged in squares by order of hight,body hair,and weight :)))))))))))) thats real german efficiency
near the left bar at the edge of the terrace we even ran into a particulary friendly deutch named frank
who had a very hard time beliving us that were not gay
including the sentences "hey i'm not gay too only on wensdays" and "of course you have a girlfriend, this is my girlfriend too (pointing to aother big deutch near him)" but fank was a good sport and treated us with cololoco
happily for us we were to meet frank many more times throughout our trip
naturaly there were many oher histerical moments
but i couldnt write them all down it would take hours
d'j oliver stood us up and didnt come to play that night instead we got d'j pippi whos was amazing on his own
he left the crowd screaming for more until the end
leaving the amnesia thursday morning i realized this was indeed the best party in the world
as it says "la mejor fiesta del mundo"
later on that day we continued to the space carry on which was just as good as i rememberd
the next days gave us agien the cream (which this time proved to be the weakest party guess i'm not too keen on british venues ,the matinee,sundays at space but just like last time at 2002 i dint really enjoy guess its not my cup of tea and of course lots of bora bora sessions in beatwean
monday i arrived back to israel
besides my girlfriend i can say there wasnt even one thing that made me happy to come back
and just like last time
me and eran swore that we will return
this time with our girlfriens
beacuse they have to see why the hell me and eran spend allmost half of our time talking thinking missing and dreaming about ibiza not to mention how much we want to share this amazing place with them
anyway
if you made it this far and didnt get tierd of reading you are more than welcome to wtite me back
and of course this year
around the begining of august were there
hope you will be too
yours truly
David
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9 February 2005
