14/07/10

Our kind friends the L&Ders sent us this great article about there adventures in Formantera which is ...I'll leave it to them to tell you

We have had a number of holidays on the island of Formentera.  This is the smallest of the Balearic Islands, and it situated about three miles off Ibiza. There is no airport on Formentera, so it has remained relatively undeveloped. That doesn’t mean that it is not popular with tourists. It just means that it is not a mass tourist destination, and visitors have to do a bit of leg work in organising their holiday them self’s.

Nearly all of the beaches on Formentera are clothing optional to a greater or lesser degree with the exception of the town beach at Es Pujols.

Our favourite beach is Playa Migjorn This is an eight kilometres beach running along the south of the island. In reality Migjorn is formed by lots of smaller beaches separated by rocky out crops. The beach is accessed at various points by roads and tracks off the main drag that runs east west along the isthmus.  The points of access are usually occupied by textiles but if you walk away from these it gets progressively naturist until you get near to the next access point. When the whole system starts again. Our favourite spot was at the far west of Migjorn. This is the least developed end.  There is a nice restaurant. And a great bar that looks more like a garden shed, and not much else.

Probably the most popular beaches are illetes and LLavent  . These are on the far north of the island and are the nearest to the port of La Savina and Ibiza. These beaches get quite busy and naturist and textiles are pretty well all mixed in together.

Another nice beach can be found north of Es Pujols just around the headland.  I could never find a name of this beach.  So we always refer to it as the German beach because apart from us it seems totally occupied by Germans, (usually a good sign) (Sept 09 Bjarne from Denmark informs us it is Platja des Canyers and says it is their favourite beach on the island)

 We were told that during July and August the vast majority of visitors are Italian, and they take over most of the island and don’t go in much for nude sun bathing.       

Thanks for this piece, we have thought about visiting .... I recon this moves it up the list a bit Hun...