SelectionWhile waiting for better days, it is possible to discover the world without leaving your room. Festive and bohemian, the mythical Balearic island is also a destination where the art of living is turned towards nature.
Dance to house made in the Balearic Islands
Pioneer of the gigantic nightclubs that have made Ibiza a destination for clubbers, the Pasha is chomping at the bit and preparing for the return for next summer of its gigantic shows where the cream of the DJs take turns behind the decks. In the meantime, fans of Balearic house can fall back on compilations including hits, such as Mediterraneo by Don Carlos, who made the place a legend of the night.
Do telluric yoga
Animated by telluric forces, Ibiza would be a good place for yoga. From the first hippies to current summer visitors, many come here to recharge their batteries and assiduously practice meditations and stretching … Elena Teixidor has been teaching on the island for fifteen years and focuses on energies by mixing different practices: yoga vinyasa, sprinkled with sequences of kundalini, qigong, breathing exercises and sound baths organized in bucolic places on the island. Courses now available on Zoom with in the background – guaranteed without green background – the wild nature of Ibiza.
Learn to “Robinsonner”
If the term “bible” is sometimes overused, it takes on its full meaning with Knowing how to relive, by Jacques Massacrier (editions of Devin, € 24.90). At the end of the 1960s, this advertising executive left Paris and moved with his wife and children to a still very rural Ibiza, to live in virtual autarky. In 1973, he recounts this experience in a book that he writes and illustrates in a naive and bucolic style. Cutting a tree, sewing a dress or making shoe polish … between proto-ecological life lessons and practical tips, this original guide shows another way of living, which seems particularly inspiring today. Died in September 2020, in Ibiza that he has never left, Jacques Massacrier has signed other works including The taste of passing time.
Have a finger in the pie
Traditionally eaten on Easter Sunday, the Flao tart has become a culinary pillar of the Pityuses archipelago (Ibiza, Formentera and their islets). Composed of local ingredients, its recipe is very simple: mix goat’s or sheep’s cheese with eggs, sugar, lemon, cinnamon and chopped fresh mint, even anise. Pour this preparation on a shortbread dough before sliding everything into the oven. Tradition has it that this dessert is accompanied by a cup of frigola (thyme liqueur) or sweet wine.
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