I used to roam the streets of Ibiza as I normally roam streets of
any strange city, toting an efficient global-nomad shoulder-bag,
crammed with electronics and travel-survival knickknacks. This year
I just carry a floppy canvas grocery bag.

Admittedly, it's a tote-bag from the distant "Bangalore Literary
Festival," but nobody cares about branding. If you carry groceries
around in a bag, nobody sees you. Because obviously you must be local.

It's the foreigners and tourists who have those ergonomic,
airplane-centric, efficient bags. They don't slop around with cheap canvas bags meant for onions.

So what I'm sporting in Ibiza in MMXX is camouflage for our new
era of ethnonationalism and "overtourism," a term recently invented in nearby Barcelona.