Lunch on Ibiza
Discussions with several people ‘in the know’ at the Ibiza Town Hotel primed us in our search for the local food and flavors of Ibiza. Part of the Balearic islands, visitors and conquerors from all over and from ancient times came to these beautiful island outposts off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean ocean, probably looking for a decent lunch, or at least some take away. We were here to discuss the Lunar Lander Challenge prize with noted aerospace researcher Loius Byron Flect of Dusseldorf University, whose radical design was scheduled to be flown on a test basis sometime before spring, or at least during truffle harvest time. We met him near the beach on a desolate part of Ibiza with his three foot mock up that he lovingly called the “The Hound”, a silver clad streamlinedaffair with springy legs and a hinged lower step so that it looked like a high tech beer cooler. “We should not give up on space exploration,” he said as he met us, dispensing with the usual hello, greeting, or even momentary eye contact. I thought he was talking to himself or to an invisible pet, and this turned out to be true when he produced a fiddler crab from his waist coat and called it Sparky. “Now then,” he said, clearing his throat. “What’s this about lunch?” and we offered him some take out tapas we had brought. We had a nice paella with lots of rice and mixed seafood, includingprawns, squid, mussels, as well as nice tortillas and hot peppers, with lots of garlic and of course some of the nice local olives that you can eat like candy, they are so addictive. During the meal we noticed a scholarly looking fellow looking over at us. We then realized the guy eating our lunch was not Dr. Flect but some beach guy, and the the real Doctor would not get his lunch.
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Tags: fiddler crab, Ibiza Town Hotel, Lunar Lander Challenge