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By *idge23 OP Man 12 weeks ago
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Janet Ventura sailed into el Puerto de Ibiza in 1982. May the 19 th to be exact . She was sailing from Mallorca and had landed in the island that spring due to a strange set of phone calls. Completely separate. One from her failed marriage in Switzerland and the other from her parents urging her to come back to Canada and restart her life. She had other ideas .
Months before at the Canadian consulate in Bern she had overheard two ladies in some small talk . Snippets . Like wind blowing words which had no meaning but which captured her curiosity . It all appeared to be about a place called Pikes in Ibiza and the new jet set setting there for parties and much more . In the exhibition of Helmut Newton which was her main reason to visit Bern , she was transfixed by a black
and white photo showing a lady in her mid 20’s wearing a very simple triangular black bikini talking confidently to a much older man in a dinner suit . His bow tie the same colour as her bikini. The photo was shot in medium format , ISO 400 most likely she thought , and included two older ladies looking in disapproval at the young lady in full conversation to who was most likely the Canadian ambassador in Spain on his regular summer holiday . By his shy , restrained smile , The young lady had clearly attracted the attention of the embassador. The note under the large 4 foot print read: Dinner party at Pikes Ibiza 1981. His right honourable Mr Fairbanks in his summer holiday in Spain.
From that point , she knew she had to leave Switzerland and explore this tiny island and find Pikes , leave her boring husband behind and well . Live . She was not aware what was coming to her . Or what she was walking towards . In any case , it would change her life forever . |
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