Sailing to Ibiza – Formentera

Formentera is the smallest inhabited Balearic Islands. I had never been there and, since I had seen Lucia y el sexo (Sex and Lucia), a wonderful movie from Julio Medem I was willing to visit.

I saw this movie in a small cinema in countryside France, when I was living there. I was alone in the cinema room. First time alone in a cinema. I was about to ask the girl that was selling pop-corn to join me. Luckily, I didn’t. She would have seen me as a pervert after seeing the movie.

Anyways, it was mid-autumn in that gray and rainy place. Seeing such a bright (photography is consciously over-exposed) movie in such an environment (clearly a Mediterranean Island) moved me to tears. After all, as the Serrat song says, yo nací en el Mediterráneo (I was born in the Mediterranean).

Well, Formentera is so close to Ibiza that to get there, we had to circumnavigate a bit of Ibiza. Thisrock is called Es Vedrà and is part of Ibiza:

Again, I don’t know how I did it, but I managed to get the 4am shift. Jeez, at least, I could see the sunrise over Ibiza:

We spent the day in Espalmador, an islet between Formentera and Ibiza which has a good sheltered beach. Did I say that nudity in Formentera is well spread ? I loved the island.

We swam to the shore and walked towards a sulfurous mud lake (see the movie and you’ll see how sexy it can become). I decided to dive there (photo has been censored for decency – don’t wanna see make naked and muddy). Since then, my skin is soft as a baby’s bum. I’ll have to do that more often.

Thru one of the guys in the crew, we secured place to moor in Formentera’s harbour. Really nice boats:

That afternoon (I remind you my day had started at 4am) we spent the day touring the island which has some amazing views:

I’ve named this last picture Sex and Marc. You’ll see why when you see the movie. Sunset at Cap Barbària is said to be beatiful, but we were sort of late. Instead, I had the moon:

That night, we had a wonderful dinner (paella, fideuà and some nice starters) in a place called La Pequeña Isla. Advisable. Xavi and Gerard Barracus decided to explore the nightlife there (Italian-invaded) with terrific success it seems. At least they woke me up when chatting to some girls.