Sam Divine | Travels, Adventures, and Leisure

Last day of the Defected Croatia festival!

Started the day (pretty late) by going to brunch at a restaurant Milly recommended called Bona Fide. Details can be found here:

http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2021/08/10/bona-fide/

After, spent time packing up our place (so we could maximize sleep for check out the next day).

Then we headed out for the last party with Gorgon City (and Eats Everything). Gorgon City played the two songs I wanted (Dreams and You’ve Done Enough). Eats everything did play a song called Get Get Down which is now stuck in my head).

After the boat party, grabbed food. Got the poke bowl and the spring rolls. Probably would not get either of them again. We then chilled at our place to drink (the girls we met, Kaz and Aphrodite) brought champagne over.

Afterwards, we headed to the main stage to see Riva Starr and Inner City (can’t say I was thrilled by either). Then headed to the beach stage to catch Horse Meat Disco. Actually thought he was ok (and as his name implies, he played disco house).

Then headed back to the main stage to see Gorgon City. Definitely liked their set better at the main stage (since they didn’t go B2B with Eats Everything). Eats Everything played next, and set was similar to the boat party.

After, there was a B2B2B2B set with most of the DJs (it was pretty cool to see all of them stage). We saw Gorgon City, Eats Everything, Simon Dunmore, and Sam Divine go back to back (there were more, but wanted to head to bed a bit early for the next day). Great way to end the festival.

PS. Gorgon City posted on Twitter that they think Defected Croatia is the best festival.

Last day in Hvar. We checked out of our apartment at 10am, and got brunch at the same place we got brunch on the first day:

http://food.johnmatienzo.com/2021/08/04/bb-club/

We then caught a ferry back to Split at 1:00pm to catch our ride to Tisno. We hired our Uber driver (that picked us up from the Airport), which cost 850 kuna (compared to 1200 kuna on Uber or Bolt).

We got the festival entrance, and at first got tested for COVID (it was a 10 minute test). Fortunately all of us were good.

We got to security, and they made us throw our opened alcohol out.

The tent was relatively good, but initially was missing a fan (we had to ask for one). The general store was also useful for toilet paper, water, and wine (they had not hard liquor unfortunately).

The festival itself has 3 stages. There is the classic stage (beach stage), olive grove, and defected stage. The first and last were good since they played more deeper music (like tech house).

The food itself was good (got gyoza and fries). However the wait for gyozas was wayyyy to long (like 20 minutes). But didn’t get food poisoning, so that’s good.

The DJs I remembered seeing (that were good) are mainly in the defected stage are Monki, and Armand van Helden.