Formentera Vacation, Naked Walkers, and Sea Salt
A host returns from a vacation in Formentera, Spain, describing the island's history and the "naked walkers" tradition. The discussion covers local dining at Can Carlos and the process of cooking fish in sea salt. Technical difficulties with GPRS data speeds and solar charging during the trip are also noted.
formentera· spain· indigenous people· sea salt· can carlos· naked walkers
00:01 You're on a deserted island with one person. How good do you have to look? You should be naked half the time. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's August 23rd, 2009. Time again for your Gitmo Nation audio publication episode 124. This is no agenda. Coming to you from the 17th Century Canal House Crackpot Command Center located in Amsterdam. Gitmo Nation East, back from my deserted island. I'm Adam Curry and coming to you from Northern Silicon Valley where the fog rolled in and hasn't rolled out. I'm John C. Dvorak. That was the joke of the entire vacation. It was like, Oh, I'm ready. Turn on the foam. Johnny C. Dvorak, turn on the foam. I'm ready, man. My life has changed, man. I like, you know, there's one club there that they have foam that is about six feet thick. No, I think every club has foam that's six feet thick, but it was not any pizza.
01:11 I was in Formentera, which has a very interesting history, that island. I bet it does. It sounds like you're really interested. So what do I tell them? Well, you already told me it's an old hippie island. Yeah, but the indigenous people, I forget what they were indigenous people. thousands of years ago well you know a lot of people on that island like the Spanish and the Romans and but the indigenous peoples who live there were actually known as the the naked walkers oh really yeah and or the translation of the name and to this day you know it's kind of a mixed a mixed bag so to speak of people who
01:56 On the beach naked and people who are on the beach not naked. It's cool though. It's like it's no big deal. Yeah, the naked walkers. You go up to them and say, hello lady, are you a native? Are you indigenous to the area? Would you like a cornetto? Would you like a cornetto ice cream? How is the food? Hey, there was this one restaurant on the island that absolutely rocks called Can Carlos. And of course it's only really open three or four months a year. And we went there two times, very hard to get a reservation. Actually three times, I'm sorry.
02:34 John, fantastic. This young Italian couple have taken over the restaurant since like whatever last season I guess. Oh my god, it was outstanding. And they have this thing in Formentera. So Formentera is known for it. The only of course tourism And salt, sea salt is made there. Oh did you bring some sea salt back? Did you get some of the indigenous sea salt? Yes, we brought back some of the naked indigenous sea salt. And they do this sea bass, or actually we had a dorada, which what is that? What kind of fish is that?
03:14 The rod? Yeah. I don't know, it's a bass I think. It's kind of like a bass. And what they do is they actually cook it in this whole big pancake of sea salt and then they crack it open. It's great though. It was like, whoa, tasted awesome. So you brought some sea salt back for me? Did you give me like a bottle? Yeah, yeah, of course. Did you miss me? Well, I... Yeah, I did miss you extremely because I couldn't kibitz with you about what's going on, especially in Great Britain.
03:49 Boy, I did it was very we didn't have electricity I had the solar panels to recharge the the cell phone so I could you know do a little bit of email But of course they they don't actually have 3G boy. That was a surprise uploading Thursday's show it GPRS only Which is like one 1.2 K per second or something like that it took hours and So Christina has been keeping up to speed a little bit, but I didn't hear of anything shocking. What's going on? Well, you know they let out the guy who... this is funny that you don't know this. Oh no, I do know this. The Lockerbie guy.
