Our Formentera

The island of my childhood

Formentera is the island of my childhood. My parents used to take me octopus fishing at Es Caló and Sa Cala, and now I go with my daughters. We also go to Es Pujols for the waffles (still the same ones) and to spend the afternoon. For the past 11 years we've had our own house in El Pilar de la Mola, and almost everything I know about the island I've learned this way: as a family, without rushing, and coming back every year.

This isn't an official guide or a ranking. These are the places we go to and what we recommend to the people who stay at our house: Ses Platgetes and Migjorn when there's no wind, Llevant when it blows, Illetes first thing in the morning with kids, the path from La Mola down to Es Caló… And the little tricks too, like stopping at El Mirador to see which coast has waves before choosing a beach.

Here we'll share our Formentera, the quiet one: La Mola's, and the one outside high season.