Time offline

Formentera and Madrid, November and December 2021

It´s been almost two month since my last post. Too many pleasant things have kept me away from being online, fulfilling my duty in continuous blog writing. I had a few very good friends coming over to visit me in Formentera, one after the next. Mia and her daughter Maria from Vienna, Marian from Berlin, Sean and Patrice from Madrid and Ivan, my very good buddy and former flatmate, who actually came twice. He had just moved from Berlin to Madrid, escaped the neverending german lockdown, to go back to his roots in Spain after decades living abroad. Just like me.

Stefano, my boyfriend, took us all on his boat a couple of times. And Ivan, who had never fished before in his life, caught 4 huge serviolas in a row which were prepared as yummy carpaccio for lunch by Stefano. Ivan, of course, made an amazing paella from Valencia , with “little italy” coming over for dinner to the house - the resident italian community on the island. There I am again, surrounded by foodies and chefs, gaining weight without practicing enough exercise, besides some yoga sessions here and there. The only thing I stayed stuck to were the ice-cold swims in the sea to boost the immun system and feel the endorphines circulating through my brain. How exciting and nourishing. Mr P is ok with it. I try not to pay to much attention to him but have difficulties in long walks, which is a drag. Because discovering the island by foot with my visitors is a total must! One day, I take Ivan on a walk to the neighbourhood of spanish millionaires along the coast. No fences but well placed cameras on expensive palm trees don´t stop us from entering the private properties with huge terraces and olympic sized swimming pools, extended olive tree fields, with an exquisite architecture to admire. The gardeners and maintainance staff don´t spoil our visit and leave us alone, for us to dream about wealth and luxury. But at the end of the day, I am so damn happy for my minimalistic life style with lots of leisure time and fun. No slave to work, commitments or possessions make my day. Nothing more to ask for, besides health.

During my stay in Madrid end of november, I bumped into these guys: Toño Camuñas and Adan Jodorowsky, good friends of mine, who had not personally met yet but always kept mutual respect for each others artistic careers. They both live partly in Mexico City and sat separately in the same café where I had stepped into for my late morning coffee. What an amazing coincidence finding them there, totally out of the blue! I was thrilled as had not seen them since some time and introduced them to each other. I adore bringing people together and immediately knew it was an interesting match. Adan I know since his late teenager years and always considered him as my little brother. He had come to live with me during many summers on Formentera and later became my sister Deborah´s boyfriend. Of Toño, I keep an important collection of his paintings and he had come to live to Berlin for a while. In fact, the reason why I had entered that café was because the walls were filled with Toño´s art work. It even turned out that the owner Mira is a friend of mine from my times living in Madrid. She looked exactly the same than 17 years ago!

Close to the café was situated the Hare Krisha Center where I had always gone to have lunch at, back in the days, because it was vegetarian and very economic. I could not believe it when the lady serving food behind the desk recognized me when asking for a full menue. Everything in there remained the same, besides the tables and chairs. Because before we sat on the floor with the prisonlike aluminium plates in front of us, eating with our bare hands while listening to Hare Krishna songs. Mira beside me, my friend and owner from the café.

At the end, nothing is coincidence but fate. The way things just should be, right?

Happy New Year, Mr P