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[brynandchristopher]

New decade, new adventure

Happy New Year!!

I hope you have all had a wonderful celebration of the end of the year and are ready to start this new one. As they say, new decade, new me. We are very excited for what this year will bring! Our outdoor adventuring in New Zealand is about to really kick into gear and our travel prospects in Australia and elsewhere later this year are bringing us great joy and anticipation! :)

Since our last post we spent a couple of days in Tauranga posted up on the beach. We had a lovely camp spot and made the most of our proximity to the ocean! I was tempted to go buy a cheap surfboard, but I think that endeavor will have to wait until Australia. From Tauranga we drove southwest into Te Urewera National Park towards the start of our first Great Walk around Lake Waikaremoana. We spent a night deep out in the woods all by ourselves- it was a bit eerie to be all alone but it was the first campsite we’ve had all to ourselves and the solitude was quite welcome. We made one of the best meals of our trip that night - we marinated Tempeh (a soybean curd from Indonesia that we fell in love with while living in Bali) in olive and sesame oil, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, chili paste and then fried it up in sesame oil. We served it over a highly spiced mix of brown lentils and brown rice. It was a good load-up on nutrients for our 4-day trek we started the next day.

We drove about 20 minutes the following morning to the trailhead on definitely the worst road I’ve driven on in a car in my life, but Sweetie managed swimmingly. We had a bit of difficulty finding the trailhead and when we did we were bit confused by there being only 1 other car parked there, nonetheless we had found the start and headed off. About halfway through our first day we got to one of the backcountry huts where we took lunch and talked to some of the other trekkers. We quickly figured out why there were no other cars, because nearly everyone was doing the trek in the other direction, so they had parked at the other trailhead. This backcountry hut was right on the water and quite a few of the trekkers there were waiting for water taxis to take them across the lake back to their cars. A couple approached us, thinking we were in that same boat, and asked if there was space for two more in our taxi. We explained we weren’t taking one and they were bummed, as they were a bit stranded and worried about how they would get back. We were setting off to leave when an idea struck me, albeit one that required quite a bit of faith in two strangers we had just met. Our original plan was to hitchhike back to our car when we had finished the hike, and while we probably would’ve been able to do this, it was a bit worrisome that we might be stranded as well. So we decided to ask this couple if they wanted to finish the hike out and drive our car back to their car. They were a bit shocked at the suggestion but happily accepted as it saved them a pretty major headache and both of us a lot of time - the other people around eavesdropping on the exchange all laughed at the audacity of our proposal. So we trusted in our new friends from the Czech Republic and kept on walking. We finished the 7.3 mile first day of our trek at the Waiharuru hut/campsite - it was right on the water and we immediately hopped into the lake for a swim. We had planned on camping that night, but while swimming a couple of people told us there were a dozen or so empty bunks if we fancied not setting up the tent, so we opted for the extra warmth and slept in the hut that night. We ate a lovely dinner of lentils and couscous with salt and chili flakes, played cards, read our books and hit the hay. 

The next day was our longest of the trip at around 9.5 miles. We woke up and ate our oatmeal and set off. Despite being the longest, it was the easiest terrain of the trip. It was all pretty flat and skirted the lakeside the entire time. Being along the lake was really cool as we were able to see flocks of black swans with bright red beaks most of the way. This lake was a sanctuary for a lot of water birds as it was incredibly quiet and remote. The lake was massive and beautiful with dozens of really cool little coves that back home would have had hundreds of boats on it, but we saw no more than 10 the entire trip. We finished our second day of hiking, and our final day of the year at Korokoro Campsite. We got there before most other hikers and got the best secluded spot a short walk into the trees. There was a nice small field and a little shelter to cook under, as well as a tiny beach you could swim off. We went swimming again, although a bit warily as there were a few swans feeding nearby and they can be quite territorial. We had no problems with the birds and gave ourselves a nice scrub to get the day’s sweat and dirt off and laid out in the field to dry off. A bit later on a few more trekkers showed up, as well as two boats that set up a luxurious camp near the shore. Being New Year’s Eve, I had carried a bottle of champagne out on the trail - I went to chill it in the water and the boat campers laughed at my commitment to the holiday and offered to chill it in their cooler. We never figured out exactly who it was but the guy who I gave the bottle to chill was apparently a really famous athlete from New Zealand - we overheard some Kiwi’s talking about how they recognized him, we think he played rugby but weren’t totally sure. There were a dozen or so trekkers at camp so we figured there would be a small New Year’s contingent staying up but everyone except for Bryn and I were in their tents by 9:30. We made more couscous and lentils, and added some instant rice to mix things up along with our champagne and had a lovely New Year’s dinner. A bit different than our 4-course meal and wine pairing we had two years ago but it was actually really nice to just chill out in the woods. We exhaustedly played cards until midnight, rang in the New Year, and were asleep by 12:10. 

Our next day was undoubtedly the hardest. We began by doing a 2 mile side-jaunt to Korokoro Waterfall which was probably around 50 feet and absolutely beautiful. We continued on for a couple of miles around the lake before eventually leaving the waterside for good where we began a grueling 5 mile uphill. We gained around 3000 feet of elevation as we made our way up quite a few stair ladders and tree root systems. It was very tiring and particularly tough on Bryn, who had developed some gnarly blisters at this point, but we listened to a couple podcasts and took lots of breaks and persevered! And we were well rewarded, as we reached the top we got the first real views of the hike. We were treated to some beautiful panorama views and relished in the hard work we  had done in getting there. We finally made it up to the Panekiri hut where we luckily grabbed the last two bunks next to each other. We were starving so we made an early dinner of rice, couscous, and sardines. It was the first time I’ve ever eaten sardines and while I didn’t hate them, I probably won’t be choosing to eat them again anytime soon - all the same, a nutrient starved body makes most things very edible. We went to bed early so we could get up for sunrise the next day.

Sunrise wasn’t all that spectacular to be honest. The view was mostly blocked by trees and it was very hazy outside as winds had blown smoke over from the fires in Australia. But it’s always nice to be up really early in the morning and we ate our final breakfast of oatmeal with all our leftover trail mix stirred in and set off. Our last day was a breeze, 6.5 miles of all downhill, we were treated to the best views of the whole trek on our final day and were a bit smug thinking ourselves lucky for doing the trek backwards. We could see the entirety of the lake and its wild jagged shape and had our final granola bars setting atop the lookout called Bald Knob. We sauntered down the hill at a frenetic pace, ready to be done, and made it to the trailhead. To our great relief Sweetie was waiting for us in perfect, albeit very dirty, condition - the couple left us a lovely thank you note and a big pile of candy and we were incredibly happy we had made that call and didn’t have to hitchhike on a remote road for the rest of the day. We set off further southwest to the coast where we have been the last couple of days. We are currently staying in Napier, a lovely coastal town that boast an affinity for Art Deco and the heartland of New Zealand's wine country. We treated ourselves to hot showers at a local gym for 3$, got a much needed carwash, and got a pizza for lunch. We pulled up to a parking lot on the beach to camp for the night, and to our surprise the van next door belonged to the Czech couple!! We talked to them a little while and made pasta and soy-meatballs for dinner. 

We will be here for a couple more days, camping on the beach, hitting up the local farmers market and a few shops before heading to the town of Rotorura to meet up with an old friend of ours from Bali who lives here now. In Rotorua we will be going whitewater rafting and exploring the plentiful hot springs around town before starting our second Great Walk in about a weeks time! We start the Tongariro Circuit on January 9th and will post our next update after we finish that tramp (NZ’s word for trek).

Our best,

Christopher and Bryn

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The PakTech Plastic Paradox

Last February, just a month or so before the coronavirus pandemic really got going in earnest, Emma Shea received a package at Zero Gravity Craft Brewery in Burlington, Vt. It was from PakTech, the Eugene, Ore., firm that produces the hard plastic, solid-hued 4- and 6-pack carrier handles with which the brewery packages its canned beers. But it wasn’t the handles themselves — it was a bin for customers to drop off used handles for proper recycling.

“We emailed PakTech and they mailed us a blue collection bin and some educational signage within two weeks,” Shea recalls in an emailed exchange with VinePair.

But when it came time to actually recycle the used high-density polyethylene handles Zero Gravity had collected, Shea and her colleagues encountered what you might call the PakTech paradox. Despite the company’s claims that its popular handles are both made from 100 percent recyclable materials and themselves fully recyclable, actually recycling them is often more complicated than that.

“We don’t have a convenient location that accepts PakTech handles for processing,” says Shea. “Currently, the nearest location is in Massachusetts, and they only accept them by the truckload.”

So what happens to the PakTech handles that make it to your local brewery, but not a reprocessor? Across the country at San Diego’s Thorn Beer Company — which has offered small discounts on beer for returned handles for the past couple of years — Anna Brigham has an answer. “Any toppers that we can’t reuse goes into our [waste management company] recycling dumpster and hopefully will get recycled from there,” she tells VinePair.

“Though there’s no way to know what’s happening to it at that point.”

PakTech’s craft brew debut

It’s flummoxing stuff, particularly for breweries that choose PakTech’s popular handles because of their recyclability (not to mention the nearly 500 nationwide that, like Zero Gravity and Thorn, have opted into the company’s pilot handle collection program, launched in 2018.) But before we get into all that, it’s worth taking a quick step back to parse how PakTech can handles found their way into the beer business in the first place.

Beer has been sold in 6-packs since the late 1930s, but it wasn’t until 1960 that an American manufacturer invented those clear plastic rings to replace heavier, more expensive metal, wood, and cardboard carriers. After a 1961 deal with a little St. Louis brewery you may have heard of called Anheuser-Busch, these things quickly became the U.S. beer business’s industry-standard 6-pack carrying solution. But they also became notorious among environmentalists and conservation groups for their negative impact on wildlife: When they wound up in the ocean, as they often did, they reportedly strangled the occasional turtle. “Six-pack rings were hugely controversial ever since I was a kid,” recalls Anne Johnson, vice president of global corporate sustainability at material recovery consultancy Resource Recycling Systems, in a recent phone interview. “They’re one of those first things that really ended up being a plastic pollution problem.”

So when American craft brewing’s second wave picked up steam in the aughts, the eco-conscious, small-bore producers pushing it forward sought packaging that was both better for the environment and more suited to their smaller budgets and outputs. Enter PakTech, which in 2008, partnered with Maui Brewing to develop QuadPak and 6Pak carriers, early versions of the now-ubiquitous handles craft beer drinkers know today.

“We feel that PakTech has met our needs in an environmentally friendly way that is certain to create a buzz,” Maui Brewing founder Garrett Marrero told Packaging World in November of that year. The article mentioned the carriers’ dust-cover tops and their versatility (workers could snap cans into them by hand, staving off the need for expensive automation equipment until volume demanded it) as key differentiators. “It’s been extremely successful so far. We barely are keeping up with orders,” Marrerro added at the time.

Those early PakTech toppers might have been less lethal for marine life, but they were still being made with “virgin” HDPE, or high density polyethylene — that is, new plastic. As the American drinking public became more concerned about the climate crisis, and more attuned to the role plastic (in both its production and afterlife) plays in hastening environmental apocalypse, PakTech tweaked its offering.

“I believe in 2012, we started converting our handles away from virgin resin and towards PCR,” or post-consumer recycled materials, says Keenan Hoar, PakTech’s territory sales manager for the eastern U.S. and Latin America. The company has come a long way since then, he tells VinePair. “Right now, all of our can handles, every one that we produce, is going to be made of that 100 percent PCR material, so it’s 100 percent recycled to start.” PakTech says this shift helps it avoid most of the energy and emissions that go into virgin plastic, and all of the oil. The material itself mostly comes from recycled milk jugs, though recently, PakTech has also experimented with a “full circle” program to recycle old handles directly into new ones. Across its entire portfolio — i.e., its non-beer products — the firm still has a few holdout customers using virgin resin, Hoar says, but “our goal is 100 percent conversion [to PCR], and we’re almost there.”

According to its website, “almost half” of PakTech’s business today is manufacturing can carriers. The plastic for those carriers mostly comes from recycled milk jugs, Hoar says. And it’s apparently been good for business — though it’s hard to say for sure. The company, which is privately held, declined to disclose sales figures or an estimate of the number of can carriers it sold last year, and Hoar told VinePair that because it sells both directly to breweries and distributors, “the actual number [of craft brewers using PakTech handles] is almost impossible to pin down.” But even as growth has slowed in the maturing American craft brewing landscape, and competitors have introduced their own carriers (some recycled plastic, some not), PakTech has found new customers in canned wine, RTDs, and even the cannabis space. (The company recently introduced the PakLock, a child-resistant cover for canned THC drinks.) After a pandemic year during which at-home drinking was at an all-time high, Hoar tells me the company’s carrier business “is still continuing to grow, and at a very good rate.”

Credit: Paktech

On recycling failures and ‘murph’ misses

But while PakTech’s handles are a popular, cost-effective carrying solution across beverage categories and they create a second-life opportunity for the virgin HDPE #2 material that other companies put into the world, they’re not without downsides.

On the benign end of the spectrum: Rank-and-file drinkers have long complained about the difficulty of breaking beers loose from the plastic toppers. “The cans can be tough to remove from the Pak-Tech when you want to drink one — they’re very secure!” Deschutes’ packaging materials manager Matt Bussmann tells VinePair via email. More troubling: “They are still plastic, which is not as green as other options,” he says.

John Hocevar, the oceans campaign director at Greenpeace USA and the author of a peer-reviewed February 2020 study of plastic recyclability in the U.S., drives this point home: “At the end of the day, if a piece of plastic is floating in the ocean, I don’t really care how much recycled content is in it.”

Whether PakTech’s toppers wind up in the ocean is a function, in part, of whether the American recycling system works as promised. And as you may have heard, it doesn’t really, not these days. It’s a very complicated subject, and there are lots of reasons for its failures, many of which, it won’t shock you to learn, are negative externalities of under-regulated capitalism. But for our purposes, the important takeaway is that when you discard a product — be it a PakTech handle, a water bottle, or an aluminum can — into the recycling, it’s more often than not sent to the landfill anyway.

Recycling rates vary depending on material type, geography, and a bunch of other factors, but in 2018 (the last year for which the Environmental Protection Agency published such figures) the recycling rate for HDPE #2 stood at 8.9 percent — meaning that a little over 90 percent of the type of plastic PakTech uses went unrecycled or uncollected entirely in the U.S. With the advent of China’s National Sword policy in 2018, recycling rates likely got even worse, Hocevar and his colleagues speculate. And the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t helped.

PakTech isn’t responsible for single-handedly fixing the country’s broken recycling system, of course. But its handles don’t exactly make it easier on that system, either. Even if you put your handles into the blue bin in your kitchen, and even if they make it to a material recovery facility — an MRF, or “murph” in the jargon — they may not get properly sorted for reprocessing once they’re there.

“Normally I would say go ahead and put it in your bin, but it looks pretty flat,” says RSS’s Johnson, looking at photos of PakTech handles on the company’s website. “I think that if you put it in your bin, it has a chance of getting through” into a bale of to-be-recycled plastics, known to recycling types as “feedstock.” But because the handles are so slim, they may flow with paper, cardboard, and other two-dimensional items, which creates a potential double-whammy: The plastic doesn’t get recovered, and it may contaminate whatever feedstock with which it’s been improperly sorted.

RRS has not studied PakTech handles specifically, so Johnson emphasizes that this is speculation: “It would need to be tested … I would recommend a material flow test at the given MRF.”

But this is not as straightforward as it may seem. According to Greenpeace’s study, there are 367 MRFs across the United States. Their sorting abilities “vary quite a bit,” says Hocevar, as do the materials they accept. So depending on where you live, even if you religiously put your PakTech handles in that blue household bin, the odds are even slimmer (ahem) that they’ll be reprocessed like more easily scanned, three-dimensional HDPE #2 shapes like bottles and jugs.

“All of the curbside recycling picked up by the city goes to a MRF, so the problem is not that it’s not routed through a MRF,” Sabrina Culyba, editor of Recycle This Pittsburgh, a recycling advocacy group, tells VinePair via email. “But MRFs use sorting equipment and a lot of plastic items won’t make it through the sorting process successfully.” That’s why in Pittsburgh, PakTech handles aren’t currently accepted in curbside recycling at all, she adds.

Credit: Paktech

Closing the loop?

None of this is news to PakTech. “It’s difficult for a lot of facilities to recycle these handles,” says Hoar. “It’s been a pretty big frustration on our end.” Which brings us back to the company’s collection program. In 2018, aiming to sidestep the MRF morass and give more of its handles a better shot at actually being recycled, PakTech piloted its own recycling program, partnering with breweries willing to serve as drop-off points for customers’ used toppers.

“We said ‘screw it, let’s build [a system] on our own dime, and see if this works,’” Hoar says. According to PakTech’s marketing materials, there are around 500 breweries currently involved in the program across the country, with another five to 10 coming aboard each week.

The idea is to create a take-back program for PakTech handles that sidesteps the pitfalls of the American recycling system writ large. It operates on the theory that, if drinkers are willing to sort the toppers themselves at home (which many of them are), then bring their personal PakTech stacks back to dedicated checkpoints, that would allow the material to essentially avoid the recycling system and be delivered straight to a reprocessor. And make no mistake, once it gets there, HDPE #2 is very recyclable, and according to Johnson at RRS, has “huge value to American manufacturing.” Because drinkers have already done the hard work of winnowing paper, adhesive, and other contaminants out of their stacks of handles, they’re prime feedstock that reprocessors will pay for by the pound.

“In the best-case scenario [breweries participating in PakTech’s program] can actually sell it back to that plastic recovery facility,” Hoar says. “Not saying that there’s much profit involved, but enough to cover the costs and maintain a third, fourth life for these handles.”

For the breweries, liquor stores, and supermarkets that want to participate, it works just like Shea at Zero Gravity described. They contact PakTech, the firm ships out a bin and some promotional posters (at no cost to the retailer), and customers drop off their handles for recovery. “The process was very easy,” she says.

Will it solve the PakTech paradox? TBD. “There are incredibly successful take-back programs, but usually it’s in a very controlled loop,” says Johnson. Nespresso’s program, for example, yields a higher recycling rate than the national average (which, according to the EPA, clocked a dismal 23.6 percent for all materials in 2018, the most recent year for which that figure is available), but it’s more expensive to run than a curbside program because customers literally mail spent pods back to the company. Barring mail — which works with the small, aluminum espresso capsules in a way that might not for the larger 4- and 6-pack handles— for a take-back program to really work, it must “have the infrastructure to collect from all the potential places it might go,” said Johnson.

PakTech’s program doesn’t meet that mark yet. As a voluntary effort, the drop-off points aren’t evenly dispersed geographically; they tend to cluster in major cities, and are particularly dense in PakTech’s backyard in the Pacific Northwest. “The whole recycling program, we just kind of started it up and it became a beast of its own, so we really rely on communication with customers who say ‘we don’t have this in our area,’” to establish drop-offs, says Hoar. A VinePair analysis of PakTech’s listings shows 10 states have no drop-off locations, while another seven feature just one or two locations for the entire state. Where the drop-off points don’t exist, Hoar hopes customers will encourage their local breweries to inquire with the company to set them up.

“We want this to succeed, and we don’t just want to ship somebody [a bin] knowing that they can’t recycle” the handles they collect, he says. (Maybe not in all cases, though: “Support from PakTech has been minimal,” Brigham says.)

Where they do exist, PakTech’s recovery bins seem popular. “It’s something our customers seem to appreciate,” says Bryan Grigsby, who handles sales and marketing at Oklahoma City’s Elk Valley Brewing Company, which has been a drop-off location since December 2018. “We use it ourselves on a pretty regular basis, as I’m breaking apart 6-packs or making sample packs for an account or something.” (Many breweries and bottle shops repack 4- and 6-packs by hand with recollected handles.) Hoar warns that used handles could cause trouble if fed through automated applicators, but affirms that as long as a handle “looks good,” this type of direct reuse is a viable path. And the handles are sturdy: At East Brother Beer Co. in Richmond, Calif., cofounder Rob Lightner estimates only about 10 percent of the PakTech carriers they take in are broken beyond reuse.

Low-volume hand-packing aside, dropping your handles off at a collection bin may not secure them safe passage to a new life.

In an ideal world, participating breweries return the PakTech feedstock they’ve collected directly to reprocessors. Sometimes, those firms will take delivery of small, inconsistent loads: For example, Deschutes’ Bend, Ore., location sends the handles it recovers to The Broomsmen, a local recycling organization that accepts PakTech drop-offs from individuals, small businesses, and breweries alike. In other markets, those businesses require minimums too high for individual breweries to meet — “by the truckload,” as Shea discovered. (In other markets, Hoar says, neighboring breweries have successfully teamed up to consolidate collections and meet minimums together, something Shea hopes to explore.)

If brewers can’t find a reprocessor to take the handles, or don’t have the space or nearby brewery partners to consolidate collections to meet minimums, then what? Oklahoma City has no commercial recycling program, Grigsby tells me, so when the bin is full, Elk Valley employees bring the recollected toppers home to recycle curbside. If the MRF they wind up at can handle the handles, they’ll be recycled. If not, well, you know the deal. Routing them through the curbside program puts the handles in the same jeopardy as Brigham’s at Thorn, thousands of miles away.

It’s these kinds of inconsistencies, coupled with the fact that much more beer is sold off-premise than through taprooms (particularly in 2020), that drive skepticism of the program’s efficacy for Greenpeace’s Hocevar. “It feels like ‘yes, but,’” he says. “Since so many [6-packs with PakTech handles] are sold in supermarkets, it seems that it’s going to be a really small portion” of customers that actually knows about, much less follows through on, the collection program. As it stands, he continues, “PakTech is producing a huge number of single-use throwaway plastic items that are going to end up in landfills, incinerators, and the environment. We need to be able to do better than that, at this point.”

His suggestion? Calling on your favorite local breweries and asking them to consider other packaging options that don’t involve any plastic, recycled or otherwise. (There are a few, though none nearly as ubiquitous as PakTech, let alone cardboard cartons or old-school plastic rings.) But you may not want to do that, given the costs and logistical challenges associated, not to mention the fact that craft breweries got walloped during the pandemic and are currently in recovery mode, anyway. And depending on your philosophy about recycling — is it a good system worth fixing, or an inherently flawed one designed to provide cover for planet-killing pollution? — you may see PakTech as part of a sustainable solution rather than the plastic problem.

That’s very much how PakTech sees itself. In response to Hocevar’s criticism, the company issued VinePair a written statement from its sustainability officer, Gary Panknin, disputing the notion that the company was profiting off throwaway plastic. ”By utilizing our products it is contributing to keeping plastics out of the environment. In fact, PakTech has currently kept the equivalent of over half a billion milk jugs from being displaced into the environment and eliminated the depletion of resources needed to make new plastic material,” he said. “PakTech handles are not single-use throw away items.”

They certainly shouldn’t be, given HDPE #2’s recyclability. And it must be emphasized again that PakTech is neither responsible for fixing all of recycling’s woes, nor the only company trying to develop a market — in the beer space and beyond — for recycled plastics. But the next time you see a stack of the company’s popular handles, remember: All that plastic has gotta go somewhere, and just because it can be recycled doesn’t automatically mean it will be. “Ideally, we’ll be able to work together as a brewing community, and find a solution that is both environmentally conscious and logistically doable for most,” says Shea at Zero Gravity. For the craft brewing industry, whether such a solution includes PakTech’s recycled plastic handles long-term remains to be seen.

The article The PakTech Plastic Paradox appeared first on VinePair.

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An Interview with Tony Pikes

This interview was first published in 2014. R.I.P. Tony Pikes.

You may know Tony Pikes as the moustachioed bartender in the video for Wham’s 1983 smash hit, Club Tropicana. But not only is he a great dancer with a penchant for neckerchiefs, he’s also the founder of Ibiza’s real life Club Tropicana, Pike’s Hotel. Famously the location for Freddy Mercury’s 41st birthday blow-out, this place has long been associated with decadence, hedonism and downright sleazy behaviour. By some bizarre turn of events I found myself sat with Tony. It would have been rude not to ask him a few questions.

Here’s the context — we’re sat next to his purple tennis court, it’s two in the afternoon and Tony, who has just celebrated his 80th birthday, is still up from the night before. He has a habit of deviating from the questions I ask him and going off on long-winded tangents, but seeing as he’s been up all night, I suppose I could hardly expect concise answers. I start by asking what brought him to Ibiza…

What makes you go anywhere in life? Fate — complete fate. I don’t believe in God, I believe in destiny, that’s two different things. I’ve always chased the rainbow. I’m not stupid. I work hard and I play hard. I learnt at a very early age that you can’t play hard if you don’t work hard. I started without a penny, I had an inferiority complex, I couldn’t speak to people, I was nervous because of my childhood. I was bullied by my older brother. I’ve moved on from there.

Now I meet with the best people in the world. It’s just worked out very well. These are people from all stretches of life. I sit up there every morning and have breakfast and I see a new customer coming in like a bantam cockerel with his chest out.

“Are you Tony Pikes? What’s all the hype about, it’s a fucking farmhouse,” he’ll say.

“Can you ask me that question in 24 hours?” I’ll say.

22 hours lately he’ll come up to me and say, “Tony, forgive me, I didn’t realise. I thought I was a really important man and now I realise I’m just part of the team.” And that’s what I want, for everybody to be equal.

The sign at the bottom of the road that lead’s to Pike’s Hotel

You were exiled from Australia, you worked selling yachts and you had been shipwrecked in the Caribbean. Then you landed up here. What was your plan? Did you always want to open a hotel?

No, not at all — it was destiny. I had a house in the Côte d’Azur that was apparently owned by Napoléon’s sister. It was a picturesque little house. I held a dinner party and one of the guests stood up with a fork and started scratching away at all the plaster. I said, “What the fuck are you doing?”

He said, “Tony, when these houses were built they were constructed with timber. I’m sure there will be timber underneath this thing. So he carried on, and there was a beam. He said if you strip all of this off it will be beautiful.

I took his advice and the next day I brought builders in and they stripped it all off so it was all beams. So I oiled them with linseed and they were beautiful. I stayed there for three years. Then things went wrong so I moved on.

A friend of mine had moved to a place I’d never heard of called Ibiza and when he came back, he said, “Mate, you must go to Ibiza.”

What year’s this?

I came here on the first of June 1978, so this must have been in ’76. If anyone had said that to me I wouldn’t believe it, but we used to hold parties together in Bangkok. So when he said to me to come here, I believed him. I came over here in March for ten days and there was nobody here because it was winter time. But I had a feeling for it. So I came back in June.

Now Spanish people are fairly short. I’m not really a big man, but in Japan I am. When I’m there I wear a kimono, but I have to have one made for me as I’m too tall. And so when I looked over the side of the boat there was a guy standing head and shoulders above the rest. It was a mate of mine from Sydney called Pete Middleton. He was a typical Australian, always swearing. I had a Méhari (editors note: a Méhari is a small off-road Citroën) at the time and Pete, who was very athletic, leapt over the windscreen and landed in the seat next to me.

“Come on Pikey I’ll show you the island, I’ve been here for a week, I’ll get a Sheila for you,” he said.

I said, “Look Pete, all I want is a bed. I was at a party for 48 hours in Antibes, I’ve had a day’s drive to Barcelona in this Méhari that won’t go over 60kmh with so much wind-force that I’m going backwards. I’ve been to Majorca and now I’m here five days without sleeping. I’ve got to have some sleep. I’m a human; I’m not a machine.

He said, “You’re bloody senile, you used to be good fun Pikey, how old are you now?

“I’m nearly fifty,” I said.

“Nearly fifty? You’re a fucking child, what’s your problem?”

I said, “Mate, I just told you I’m shot. I’m a mere mortal, I need rest.” Then all of a sudden this Seat Panda drives past with a woman in. I honked the horn, but this was no a klaxon — it was a wounded cat with no guts. I got behind her but I couldn’t overtake her as it was a narrow road with one lane, just like it is now. So I got two wheels on the soft shoulder, which is very dangerous, and I’m going by and I look up and she’s a nice, pretty girl. I eventually managed to get in front of her but she smashed in to me.

“What’s the problem?” she said.

“There’s no problem, what are you doing for dinner tonight?” I said.

“Is that all?” she said.

“What do you mean is that all? I’m going to change your life.” And I did — I changed her life. We started this place together. We bought an apartment that was being built in the island’s first high rise, but when we came back there were just mounds of gravel and sand and nothing had been done. It was blacklisted by the authorities. It was all unsafe. The builder had put gas pipes, water pipes and electricity all in the same conduit. It was disastrous.

So we had a coffee, feeling a bit miserable and then walked up the road, just past an estate agent’s window. And in that window was a five hundred year old finca in San Antonio. I said, “That’ll be fresh air sweetheart, let’s go there.”

So we came here and it just had a feel about it, I don’t know what, but we both felt something. We got a bottle of wine, put a rope on the neck and swung it down. We got pissed too as it was hot. She said, “Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could forget husbands and wives and divorces and stay here together.

I said, “Why can’t we?”

“Well, you haven’t got any money.”

I said, “Don’t mind that, if I want to do something I put my mind to it then I’ll do it.”

So I got this idea of not making a hotel, but a house. And it just started from there.

How long was it until word got out?

From the word go. I sold boats from a marina in France to Peter Sellers, Roger Moore and Shirley Bassey, so I was used to those sort of people. I’ve always been a yachtsman and a businessman. I didn’t have a childhood and I had a tough life, but I started to get the feeling for a good life. I thought if I work hard I can get it, and I have — I’ve got a world-wide reputation. It’s been a long, long road and it hasn’t been easy. People say I’m lucky, but I’m not lucky, I’m fortunate and I’ve worked my arse off.

A washed-up speedboat found a few metres from Pike’s Hotel

You said you were very introverted when you were young, what changed you?

I felt success. The island is kind. If you work hard you can make it. This is the countryside, there’s no water, no electricity, no road and no facilities but I had this vision that one day I’d make it like it is now. This took me twenty years. But I wasn’t in a hurry because when you’re young, then you don’t feel you’re ever going to get old. But you do get old.

How old are you now?

I’m 80.

You look well for 80.

I feel very well. My doctor said I’m a walking medical miracle. He said, “I know you take a lot of blow up the nose and copious quantities of alcohol but I’d trade my internal organs for yours tomorrow — you should be dead.

I’m doing everything I shouldn’t do but I’m 80 and I feel great. I’ve been married five times and I’m engaged to my sixth wife. We were going to get married last year on the 35th anniversary of the hotel, but she rang me up from Vienna and said, “Tony why did you lie to me?”

She said, “I’ve been speaking to two friends of yours and they said she couldn’t marry me because I was already married.”

I said, “Oh bullshit, what would they know about it?”

So I phoned my wife in Dubai and said, “Are we still married?”

“Baby, you know we are. We went to get divorced, we got everything ready for it but when we got to the bank you didn’t have any money and I wanted two and a half million euros.”

I said, “You’re worth every penny.” I was with her for 14 years — she was a good wife. So I sold the hotel to get the money, which is a shame. But now they’re saying they want me to say. I’ve got a room for life here.

After all these years is there any night here that particularly stands out?

There are a lot of them. I guess Freddie Mercury’s party. He called me into his room one day that used to be called Julio’s room. He said, “Why’s it called Julio’s room?”

I said, “It’s named after Julio Iglesias, the international singer.”

“What about me?” he said. “Where’s the Freddie room?”

I said, “You keep singing and one day maybe you’ll get your room.” I was being facetious but I had a great rapport with him.

His birthday was the biggest private party on the island. But all the parties have been good. This life is different. I live in utopia.

What about the days when you need to go to the supermarket or sort your bills out?

No, I don’t do that. That’s mundane stuff. I live life to the full every day. It’s what keeps me young.

Have you got any regrets in life?

Nope, no regrets.

Being an 80 years old man living in utopia, what would your advice be to someone slightly younger?

In my opinion the only way you can make it is to work your arse off. I started without a penny and no education but I know how to work. When I started this place with my girlfriend we used to go down to San Antonio early in the morning, pick up all the derelicts sleeping on the beach and I’d line them up like Lee Marvin in the Dirty Dozen and say, “Listen, you’ve got the job. I’ll pay you 150 pesetas an hour and if you do your work you’ve got the job. Work half as much as me and I’ll pay you.”

Most of them by noon were finished. They’d all gone across the fields. It was very, very difficult to get the place built. And then you’ve got planning coming up and asking you if we’ve got permission and they’d try and shut you down.

I’ve been put in prison here. I was put in a pit. You go down there and the police are four stories above you with rifles and you’re in a dirt pit looking up. Now one guy there spoke English. He said, “Tony, you’re a nice man. They’re going to lock the stalls later on so you make sure you get one by yourself or you’ll get raped all night long and there’s nothing you can do about it ‘cause the guys don’t listen.”

Now the Spanish law is that you can’t do more than 72 hours inside without a charge so I thought all I had to do was 72 hours then I’d be out, but this blond headed guy said he’d been there a month.

“But what about the law?” I said.

“There is no law,” he said. “The law is those coppers up there with the rifles and they can do as they wish.”

Custom bedsheets featuring Tony and his mates

Was there a lot of this sort of thing when you first started? Was there a feeling of animosity from the locals for starting this place?

I never walked around being big headed, but I gradually became very well known. It’s a good business but it’s never made any profit as I wasn’t in it for money — I was in it for lifestyle.

I got the greatest compliment ever one day when I walked in to the restaurant one day and Julio Iglesias was having lunch and he said, “Tony, I envy you.”

I said, “Mate, you’ve got a 41 million dollar airport and I’ve got a fucking bicycle. How come you envy me?”

“I’m not talking about riches, I’m talking about lifestyle.”

I walked out of the bar with tears in my eyes. Here was the nicest man in show business saying that he envied me. I’d made it. I’d done it.

Do you reckon you’ve cracked life?

Most people don’t have the tenacity to keep going. It doesn’t come easy. I’ve achieved a lifestyle second to none. I’ve got Julio saying he envies me. Ron Rice, the founder of Hawaiian Tropic is a multi-millionaire with two 747s and he says he envies me. I’m doing something right.

Why do you think you’re still here?

I love life and I love women. I should have been a lesbian. I don’t want it to end. I want to live a few more years.

What’s going on tonight then?

I don’t know. I never plan. If you make plans they all come unstuck. I just go along with the flow.

Howard Marks is knocking around here at the moment making a book with you. You said they were going to make a film too. What’s that going to be about?

They’ve already made a film about me. But it didn’t get finished. I was going to be played by that good looking man from Hollywood. What’s he called?

I don’t know… Robert Redford likes to think he’s good looking.

No, before him — a very good looking man. I had dinner with him once. Anyway, they had him talking to this blonde, who was an actress. And the camera was moving around — camera work is always important. She’s talking to him and the camera goes down his body to his fly. You see a hand go across and open the fly. The camera goes to her face and she goes, “WOW.” You don’t have to say anything — that says it all. And then I die. But it was nicely done, it wasn’t morbid.

And with that sleazy-yet-poignant image, I leave Tony Pikes sat on the edge of a sun lounger as he finally submits to the power of sleep.

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10 THINGS HEALTHY girls DO daily

Have you ever been around somebody UN agency simply radiates health? I’m talking clear skin, fit, in shape, beaming skin, happy and healthy from the within out…

If you recognize somebody like this, you might’ve questioned what their secret is. What’s the magic drinkable that creates them therefore healthy?

As it seems, there's no magic drinkable or mending that’s aiming to cause you to healthy, and do away with those late-night ice-cream binges.

While there’s (unfortunately) no mending, staying healthy is truly not that sophisticated.

There is a unit a variety of straightforward things that healthy girls do daily to assist them to keep work and healthy.

10 THINGS HEALTHY girls DO daily

1. They Get Enough Sleep

A good night’s sleep is an Associate in Nursing integral a part of a healthy lifestyle, with most adults needing between 7-9 hours of sleep per night.

We all knowledge rattling it feels to awaken once a decent night’s sleep, and the way terrible it will feel having to pull yourself out of bed once a restless night.

Researchers have discovered that getting a top-quality night’s sleep has several benefits beyond assuaging luggage underneath the eyes. a number of these advantages include:

Helping to take care of a healthy weight

More creativeness

Longer era

Reduce inflammation

Improved memory

More emotional stability

If you’re combating obtaining a decent night’s sleep, here area unit some easy tips which will help:

Set the area temperature between 60-67 degrees

Buy a decent quality, subsidiary pad, and pillow

Avoid bright screens 1-2 hours before bed (this suggests that don’t lay in bed victimization your cell phone!)

Stick to a sleep schedule (even on the weekends)

Avoid serious meals within the evening

Exercise throughout the day

Avoid alkaloid within the evening

Practice relaxation techniques before bed, like meditation, deep respiration, a heat bathtub, etc.

2. They keep hydrous

Water could be an important supply of life, therefore it is sensible that healthy girls rank their water intake.

Consider the following:

The organic structure will survive weeks while not food, however solely days while not water

An adult woman’s body is created from fifty-fifth water

The human brain is seventieth water

The human lungs area unit ninetieth water

Besides, drinking Associate in Nursing adequate quantity of water will facilitate to stop constipation, helps to eliminate toxins and waste, helps your muscles perform higher, improve brain perform and facilitate to curb gula.

You’ve most likely detected the old recommendation to drink eight cups of water per day. However, this can be not entirely correct. There area unit a range of things that verify what quantity water you ought to be drinking per day, as well as your sex, age, activity level and whether or not you’re breastfeeding or pregnant.

According to The Institute of medication, this counseled daily water intake for ladies over the age of nineteen is two.7 liters (about zero.71 gallons.) Bear in mind, this can be the counseled overall fluid intake and includes the fluid you consume from uptake fruits and vegetables. The IOM recommends that fluid intake ought to be nine cups per day.

Struggling to drink enough water?

Here area unit some tips to assist you to increase your water intake:

Flavor your water with fruit – an infuser bottle like this is the most effective thanks to trying this.

Set a timer on your smartphone to prompt you to require a sip throughout the day

Download Associate in a Nursing app like Daily Water Free

Use a water bottle with an association hunter

Want to induce high-tech and fancy? Grab yourself a Hidrate two.0 good bottles.

3. They Move Their Body

The organic structure was designed to move however sadly, we have a tendency to area unit leading more and more inactive lifestyles.

We drive to figure, sit behind a table for eight hours, drive home, then lay on the couch looking tv for some hours before we tend to go bed then repeat the cycle consequent morning.

Government health tips suggest that we have a tendency to pay half-hour daily engaged in exercise. This can be the blank minimum quantity of exercise we must always be stepping into day after day.

If you have got employment that creates it tough to search out the time to exercise, here area unit some tips:

Make it a degree to face up every 20-30 minutes and walk around the workplace

Invest in a Fitdesk underneath table Elliptical

Convert your table to a standing table (this height-adjustable standing desk makes it easy)

Utilize your lunch break – even happening a brief walk is healthier than sitting down

If you’re a ma reception with the youngsters, here area unit some tips:

Incorporate the youngsters into your workout! If you’ve got a baby, strap them into a baby carrier and head out for a walk, do some squats, etc.

Take the youngsters to the playground and acquire artistically. Do some tricep dips, incline push-ups and step-ups on the bench, chin-ups on the monkey bars, play chase around the park, see what number jump squats you'll be able to kill one minute, etc.

4. They Manage Their Stress Levels

Healthy girls recognize that stress will work disturbance on your health so that they build it a degree to stay their stress levels in check.

Here area unit some easy ways to assist you to fretless:

Practice self-care – treating yourself to a massage, taking a walk outdoors, saltation round the house to your favorite music, treating yourself to a pleasant dinner and moving picture or hiring a sitter for some of the hours to walk around the mall kid-free will all go a protracted means towards reducing your stress levels.

Exercise regularly – exercise releases endorphins that facilitate to scale back stress levels

Get adequate sleep – aim for 7-9 hours nightly

Practice relaxation techniques – yoga, meditation, and deep respiration area unit all tested stress relievers.

5. They set up Ahead

You’ve detected the expression, “If you fail to set up, you propose to fail,” right? Healthy girls recognize the importance of designing ahead, particularly once it involves meals.

How many times have you ever arrived home once work or extra-curricular activities with the youngsters and realized that:

a) There’s nothing within the house to eat

or

b) You’re too tired to cook

So what winds up happening? You order takeout…

A little meal coming up with will go a protracted means towards avoiding this situation!

6. They Keep Their Gut Healthy

Hippocrates, the traditional Greek medical practitioner once explicit that “All illness Begins within the Gut.” whereas we tend to currently recognize that all disease doesn’t begin within the gut (for example, genetic diseases) science has educated America that heaps of diseases do have their beginnings within the gut.

Healthy girls recognize this so that they make certain they’re keeping their gut in physiological state.

To maintain sensible gut health, avoid uptake sweet foods and drinking sweet beverages, take a high-quality probiotic supplement, and consume probiotic made foods and drinks like kefir, kimchi, kombucha, and alternative hard foods.

7. They Keep Their Heart Healthy

Although {heart illness|heart condition|cardiopathy|cardiovascular disease} is commonly thought to be a disease that primarily affects men, the heart condition is truly the leading explanation for death for ladies within us.

1 out of three deaths of girls is attributed to a heart condition.

However, the great news is this:

According to MedicineNet, the heart condition is often prevented and even reversed with lifestyle changes, including:

Eating a wholesome diet supported fruits, vegetables, and whole grains

Maintaining a healthy weight

Reducing sugar, sodium, cholesterin and saturated fat consumption

Reduce stress levels

Daily physical activity

Limit alcohol consumption

Quit smoking

8. They’re Careful What They placed on Their Skin

Healthy girls recognize that their skin is their largest organ, and since the skin is porous, it absorbs no matter what you set thereon.

It’s for this reason that healthy girls area unit tuned in to the sweetness merchandise they use on an everyday basis, and make certain they avoid harmful chemicals.

Your makeup and aid merchandise contain thousands of chemicals, several of that area unit celebrated irritants, endocrine disruptors and area unit cancer (yes, it’s legal for aid corporations to use these varieties of ingredients…)

While it’s not possible to list all of the chemicals you ought to be avoiding, here area unit some of the worst offenders:

Parabens – related to Associate in Nursing magnified risk of carcinoma

Artificial colors – prohibited within the Common Market because of being cancer

Phthalates – related to Associate in Nursing magnified risk of carcinoma, endocrine disruptor, coupled to generative birth defects

Sodium Laurel/Laureth sulfate – skin, respiratory organ and eye pain in the ass

Propylene Glycol – skin pain in the ass

9. They Keep Their Alcohol Consumption under control

Excessive alcohol consumption is coupled with a full host of diseases. According to Medical News these days, these include:

Heart illness

Liver illness

Cancer

Osteoporosis

Pancreatitis

Ulcers and epithelial duct issues

Immune system disfunction

Brain harm

Malnourishment and sustenance deficiencies

According to the Mayo Clinic, girls ought to drink no over one customary drink per day. Wine is one in all the healthiest alcoholic beverages. It’s loaded with antioxidants, will facilitate maintain a healthy heart, and my facilitate to guard against some sorts of cancer.

Remember – everything carefully, as well as wine. If you discover yourself unable to prevent at one glass, it’s best to avoid alcohol altogether.

10. They Avoid The Comparison entice

Finally, healthy girls avoid falling into the comparison entice.

Comparing yourself to others will nothing to boost your health, wellness, fitness or shallowness.

There’s completely nothing wrong with victimization alternative people’s achievements as a supply of inspiration and motivation. However, if you discover yourself commencing to compare yourself to others, and begin to feel depressed or meritless then you’ve fallen into the comparison entice.

Unfollow folks on social media UN agency cause you to feel something but galvanized and motivated.

And forever keep in mind, ne'er compare you're commencing to somebody else’s middle.