by Mark Butland | 14/08/2026 | Ibiza 2026
Friday was checkout day. We said goodbye to Hotel Puchet, caught our airport transfer and flew back to the UK, already talking about when we might come back. Five days, one solar eclipse (even without totality) and a lot of sangria: this trip will take some...
by Mark Butland | 13/08/2026 | Ibiza 2026
Thursday morning was another lazy one by the pool. Later we met up with a couple of old friends who happened to be in San Antonio at the same time, and after a few beers and a good catch-up we took the ferry across the bay into the marina for the evening. Dinner was...
by Mark Butland | 12/08/2026 | Ibiza 2026
Wednesday was the day we’d been looking forward to for months. We kept the morning easy by the hotel pool, then caught the 1pm bus back out to Cala Tarida and the spot we’d picked out the day before. Lunch was at 17, a lovely Italian restaurant right on...
by Mark Butland | 11/08/2026 | Ibiza 2026
Tuesday was about getting our bearings. We caught the bus from outside the hotel into Ibiza’s old town and spent the morning wandering the streets and looking out over the harbour. From there we took another bus out to Cala Tarida on the west coast. We...
by Mark Butland | 10/08/2026 | Ibiza 2026
This was our first time back on the island since 2019. We flew out from Gatwick and landed in Ibiza on Monday afternoon, and the transfer to Hotel Puchet in San Antonio went smoothly, so by late afternoon we were checked in and ready to go. We didn’t hang about....
