“I’m trying to locate the father of my child”. These are the words of Sarah Jayne Snow, a young British woman who was on holiday in Tenerife last year.
The 30-year-old woman contacted the British tabloid The Sun to tell her story on this trip to the Canary Islands to be able to find the father of her child before it was born, since they never kept in touch.
Sarah said she was “very drunk” and had “a one-night stand” with a young man on the beach. “I know he was 19, but I didn’t catch his name. Also, we didn’t give each other the phones, I just remember that she worked at the Braehead shopping center in Glasgow”, he indicated.
The British stressed that the relationship was “something consensual between two drunken adults” and that “on purpose” the phones were not exchanged, although everything changed when their status was known: “When I found out I was pregnant I knew I had to try and find him. I can take care of my son alone, but I don’t want him to feel like he doesn’t know who her father is. All I want is for his dad and his family to know so that if they want to participate, they can.”.
It all happened in August 2022 when the young woman was on vacation in Playa de las Américas, in Tenerife, and met the father of her son one night out. “He was 19 years old and I was 29, at first I didn’t want anything with him, but we ended up having relationships. Now I just want him to know what happened, that he’s going to be a father. I don’t ask him for anything, but he has the right to know.”.
“I do not lose hope of finding him, that he knows that he will have a child and that this little boy knows, in the future, who his father is”, he has sentenced and has recognized that “it is very difficult to locate him”.
The Balearic Government approved in 2020 a pioneering decree in Europe that forbids in Playa de Palma, Magaluf (Mallorca) and West End of Sant Antoni (Ibiza) the so-called binge tourism and contemplates the expulsion from all the hotels in the Balearic Islands of tourists who practice ‘balconing’ and fines of up to 60,000 euros.
The decree law prohibits in these three zones the advertising referred to the consumption of alcohol and the open bars, the alcoholic excursions (the so-called ‘pubcrawling’), the ‘happy hours’, the ‘2 for 1’ or ‘3 for 1’ and the self-dispensing alcohol, as well as the sale of alcoholic beverages in stores between 9:30 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
Drinks should be charged at a unit price, no possibility of promotionin the hotels and restaurants in these areas, customers may only be offered three alcoholic drinks per person at lunch and dinner.
Tourists who practice or allow the ‘balcony‘ (jump from one balcony to another or jump from the terrace into the pool) in any hotel in the Balearic Islands may be expelled “immediately” of the establishment in question and will face fines of between 6,001 and 60,000 euros. The hotel has the obligation that they do not continue staying.
In addition, this new decree law limit boat parties on the coast called ‘party boat’: the granting of new licenses is suspended until the regulation of this activity within a period of 24 months and the boats that have a license will not be able to embark or disembark tourists in any of the three areas referred to, which are considered the “hottest” of drunken tourism in the Balearic Islands.
