Ibiza Bank Holiday Weekend 22-25th of August

Forget the Nottinghill Carnival, this bank holiday was all about the sun, sea and sand ... well almost!

I jetted off for a long weekend away to the island of Ibiza for a bit of a boogy, some top quality cuisine and of course the sunshine.

Upon arrival to our Hostal  (hello we thought we were staying at a hotel), we unpacked the outfits and headed into the centre of San Antonio for dinner. Now most people would assume that at a guess the cuisine on this part of the Island would be crap, but thanks to a local shop assistant, we managed to stumble upon El Rincon De Pepe, a brilliant Tapas restaurant, slap bang in the middle of all the touts, bars and chaos. 

Tummy's full we went back to get ready for what turned out to be the best night of the holiday, Fedde Le Grande @ Pacha. Leaving our jet lag in our suitcase we rocked down to Ibiza Town for the event and didn't stop grooving till about 5am, approximately 23 hours since we last hit the slept the day before. Fedde was amazing, but the guy after him was even better, pumping up the crowd with every track. 

Next day and really really knackered we hopped on the local bus to head over to a local beach. 

Hello, where was the sunshine???? It wasn't worth crawling out of bed for, in fact , it rained. Typical or what. 

Saturday night was a lot better as we had booked dinner at the amazing Bam Buddha Grove restaurant and boy it certainly didn't disappoint. With a Tantric cat, nomad, Thai decor, sex shop and brilliant food, this place is definitely worth a visit and funnily enough had been recommended to us by a number of friends. Thanks to all of you as it was fab. 

After this we went Ibiza Town, had a drink, met our toilet friend, some crazy guy that was mega funny and invited us to go to Space the following day, though we never actually saw him in there. About 1.30am we caught a taxi to El Divino for Hed Kandi, and despite me blagging guestlist through my music contacts back in London, it was crap. Nothing like a typical sort of Ministry night. The venue was shite as well. Left there about three and got some much needed kip, well about 4 hours of it before getting ready for our only day in the sun, at the beach party down Bora Bora. 

The aim on Sunday was to get to Bora Bora for about 11am and chill there for a few hours before heading to Space nightclub for their Space Sunday's event. The beach party was great fun, it seemed like all the hot people on the Island had decided to party in one location. Plus all the planes flying straight over the beach every 10 minutes added a special something to the atmosphere. 

With 6pm looming we went over to Space, only for me to get ID'd, lame. It actually worked out for the best as we decided to make the most of the rest of the day and visit the sunset at Cafe Mambo, on the other side of the island. It was the best sunset i have ever seen, with thousands of people seating themselves on the rocks just for an glimpse of the Spanish sunshine. 

It was well worth doing as Space was too hardcore for us, so we are really glad we made the most of our final day.

Monday was mainly about the tan, but with Heather not using any sun tan lotion on her face, i knew i was never going to catch up, whilst on factor 40. Oh and yes you've guessed it, it was cloudy again. 

Had a great weekend, but it was all ruined by Iberia airways who decided to delay our first flight, which meant our luggage didn't make the next connecting flight. Our bags stayed in Madrid for two extra days, which put a bit of a downer on everything, just wish i could have stayed out there with them. 

Thai Food Festival - 10/08/08

I stepped out in the (brief) sunshine last weekend and headed down to Greenwich, not to see the remains of the Cutty Sark, but to a scrummy food festival instead.



The Thai Food festival or Thai @ Zero Longitude as it is called took place on both Saturday and Sunday from 11am until about 6pm.



Having travelled to Thailand earlier this year i thought it would a great excuse to get some friends together for a bit of a feast in Greenwich Park.




Once inside we were pleasantly surprised by the array of food on offer. Remarkably over priced, but definitely worth a try, there was up to 10 stalls from various different Thai eateries around the capital, and i pretty much gave 50% of those a try. There was everything on offer from Pad Thai, Fish Cakes to Fruit Shakes.



There was also loads of other entertainment going on like Thai food carving classes, kick boxing, music and of course dancing.


I would definitely go back yesterday, but would make sure it was near to closing as everything got reduced 75% but i was already full :(

Fashion V Sport @ the V&A, 4,08,08

We headed down to the launch party of the highly anticipated Fashion V Sport exhibition at the V&A Museum, South Kensington.

Aside from all the free drink, canapes and ice cream we also came down to preview the collection of sportswear on show, 24 hours before the public.



















Mainly to showcase the new technologies in sportswear over the last 20 years the exhibition also documents how high end fashion brands such as Chanel, Stella McCartney have collaborated with sports brands to create a new more popular fashion style.

We also got to look at the science in sports wear such as the Michael Phelps Speedo Razor full body swim suit and the Puma all in one football kit.
Though relatively small the exhibition was a good insight into the world of sportswear and with special events taking place throughout the 6 month exhibition such as Noki's - Cut The Brand, and a Secret Wars live battle it's definitely worth a look in.

After Party was held at Bungalow 8 with all the other street wear heads to Covent Garden for a bit of a post launch party, party.

Hello One and All

Hello one and all Nani blog fans. I know i know, im sorry. I have been away for way to long. Got caught up in the world of entertainment PR for the last year and have been a bit distracted and strapped for time on the whole Nani front. Boyz II Men and Chaka Khan took up too much of my time.

But fear not because im now im back and this time it's to stay. I am now moving to pastures new in a couple of weeks, trying my hand at a bit of the old fashion PR stuff, so moving away from music.

Massive thanks to all at Hudson PR who have kept me on track for the last year, keeping my reallly really busy, it has been a blast. I will miss everything about the job, apart from the late evenings, but the time has come for me to move on to bigger and better things.