<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cc4eea41-9916-4063-a965-45d855a1fd3b/3E7258A3-DB82-4232-82E0-B50224EB443D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/" href="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/" style="font-size: 11px;">self.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><H2 class="post-title">Bumbling Through the Balearics</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><P>In Ibiza, the night proceeds according to plan: we set off in convoy, several cars full of us — true, we’re going to a party in a swanky villa on the other side of the island, but while half our company are teenaged, the rest of us are past the age when we can do any raving — except against the dying of the light. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><P>Then: solid darkness, with headlights gouging it out to expose switchback roads and useless signs. The mobile phone calls begin: like the echolocation of decadent bats. Some Ibizan parties can be found by following lizards stenciled on walls, others by pink balloons, but the turning for this one — or so we’re assured through the ether — will be clear to us because of a strategically placed pile of three white phones. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><EM>(Editors’ note: Mr. Self’s walk through summer has extended into the autumn.)</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/self.blogs.nytimes.com/img/5B05C201-D158-4CCF-A86A-5B430813AD4C" alt="Author Photo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/self.blogs.nytimes.com/img/1E31B6A8-B532-4CC3-857A-A8F9264E488D" alt="Signs: flagrant Spanish contempt for the walker." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><SPAN class="caption">Flagrant Spanish contempt for the walker. (Will Self)</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/self.blogs.nytimes.com/img/58E8371A-6611-46E4-9E70-0420C12AE00B" alt="Cala d’en Serra" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/bumbling-through-the-balearics/"><SPAN class="caption">Cala d’en Serra. 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