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Two slender, high-heeled legs protrude from a chocolate cupcake. In between, a strawberry has been provocatively placed atop a bed of whipped cream, while a slogan scrawled in neon lipstick reads: "You'll never dance alone, bitch."
As billboard campaigns go, this ad for a night out at the world's biggest super-club Privilege leaves very little to the imagination. But in a place where, stereotypically, enjoyment is measured by excess, I'd expect nothing less from Spanish island Ibiza.
Similar ads line the roads leading to clubbing hotspot (or hedonistic hellhole, depending on how you look at it) Playa d'en Bossa, like a sugary, sweet trail, attracting bees to a honey pot.
When I arrive in mid-October, though, the place is refreshingly peaceful. Flyers have been ripped from shop windows, bars have pulled down their shutters, and a plastic bag sent billowing skyward by the cool autumnal breeze is the closest thing I see to dancing in the street.
The clubbers may have packed away their glow sticks for another year but, I'm told by one resident, the winter season is when Ibiza really blossoms. There's less traffic on the roads and prices are much lower. Yet the sun still shines, with temperatures hovering at 15C in December.
"If you're not fussed about catching the clubs but still want to see spectacular sunsets, top up your tan and sample traditional Mediterranean cuisine, it's a great time to go," Cheapflights.co.uk travel expert Ben Rosier says.
Traditionally, clubs, bars, restaurants and hotels would close their doors once DJs had spun their last tunes in September. But now, several properties are staying open for longer. The new Hard Rock Hotel is taking bookings until November, while glamorous Atzaro, in the north of the island, has announced it will host guests year-round.
A 15-minute drive from grown-up beach town Santa Eularia, Atzaro is a working orange farm that's been in operation for more than a century. Ten years ago, owners the Guash family opened the property as a 24-room hotel with Ibiza's only open-air spa. Oranges are still cultivated and sold to local markets, or served as freshly squeezed juice to guests at breakfast.
Teak, linen-wrapped daybeds are spread around the vast but secluded gardens, resplendent with canopies of fragrant jasmine and striking bougainvillea.
A proliferation of Balinese statues hints at the property's spiritual, New Age leanings. Several wellbeing festivals take place throughout the year, and some attract as many as 9000 people.
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The after-party: Winter on the White Isle
Ben Groundwater Nov 12 2014 at 12:03 AM
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No one wants to be a toolie. Well, maybe some people do, but they shouldn't. Turning up to schoolies celebrations when you're clearly several years over school-leaving age is not something anyone should aspire to.
However, that doesn't mean the schoolies groups who will be partying hard in the next few weeks get to have all the fun. Maybe it's just me, but I've always been a bit jealous of the kids on the Gold Coast. It looks like they're having a ball.
So if you're far too old to pass as a school-leaver but still want to let loose and party like you've just finished your final exams, these are the places you want to travel to.
About the closest you can come to recreating schoolies for slightly older people is on this Croatian party island; a beautiful place filled with everything from dirty backpacker bars to exclusive (and expensive) nightclubs. Sometimes it can feel like pretty much all of Western Europe has arrived in Hvar to celebrate anything that comes to mind. This is not the place for a quiet, relaxing holiday.
Travellers have been coming to Vegas for an adult schoolie experience since long before there was a proper schoolies. There's the feeling that you can do whatever you want in Sin City. Drink, gamble, dance, see extravagant shows, eat great food, shoot guns, drive go-karts, smoke cigars, go on roller-coasters, see live bands This is schoolies the way it always should have been.
If you don't know how to dance before you get to Medellin, there's a good chance you will know by the time you leave. This is a city that likes to move, whether that's in the form of salsa, pop, rock or reggaeton. Once considered too dangerous to visit, Medellin is transforming itself into a tourist-friendly destination with some of the best nightlife around.
Head down to the notorious Khao San Road area and you'll find plenty of backpackers mostly Australian having themselves a little adult schoolies right there on the streets. It's a little seedy (OK, very seedy), but if you're looking for something classier don't despair: choose from one of the many rooftop bars in areas like Sathorn or Sukhumvit.
There's so much more to Amsterdam than the Red Light District; however, if it's the schoolies experience you're trying to recreate, then it is this den of sin you should be visiting. Go on, go crazy: visit a coffee shop, go to a sex show, wander the seedy alleyways and duck into canal-side bars. You certainly won't be the only one doing it.
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Where to party like an (adult) schoolie
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What do neckties, rappers, Barbie and pet dogs have in common?
For some arch-conservatives in Iran, they are all elements of a Western cultural invasion that needs to be confronted. The biggest and most constant threat to the country was how Irans deputy defense minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan, characterized it in an impassioned speech earlier this year to denounceWestern ways.
The latest swipe came last week. A group of hard-line lawmakers proposed a punishment of 74 lashes and fines up to $2,600 for publicly displaying certainpets, according to the reformist newspaper Shargh. They mentioned monkeys or other animals. But the proposal is clearly aimed at dogs still very rare as pets in Iran, but increasingly appearing as a sort of badge of sophistication among a certain crowd of liberal leaners.
The proposal backed by a relative handful of lawmakers, according tonews reports is unlikely to pass in its current form. But its an instructive study in Irans never-ending identity crises.
In the years after the 1979 Islamic revolution, the opponents of Western influence "Westoxification in the parlance of Iranian leaders had the upper hand. The enforcers of the new order had almost unchallenged authority to quash anything seen as favoring the Great Satan in Washington and its allies. (Except maybe the pre-revolution Lincolns, Cadillacs and other Detroit imports that were simply too cool to destroy.)
Gradually, however, the barriers began to fracture. Music cassettes of Western bands and VCR tapes of Hollywood movies appeared in the 1980s. Then came satellite dishes. Burger joints, pizza places, jeans. The Internet. Mani-pedis. Now, the latest smartphones and tablets are routed through third countries to skirt U.S. economic sanctions. A popular Tehran fast-food place essentially a clone of Hardee's used to play American cartoons on an endless video loop.
On the Web, an on again-off again Instagram account called Rich Kids of Tehran purports to showcase a slice of the capital as blinged out as any Kardashian.
Meanwhile, the current government of President Hassan Rouhani reads like a Western alumni guide. Rouhani studied in Scotland. A top policy adviser, Mahmoud Vaezi, has degrees from colleges in California and started his doctorate at Louisiana State University. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who went to San Francisco State University and the University of Denver, tweets about everything from the ongoing nuclear talks to his achingback.
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