Oh lets just have some sweet family photos today

Ibiza Families are the best or Ibiza is the best place to get family photos

Mia Ali Taz and Marley

Ibiza is a very transient island. People come and go.

I am not so good at history, I can never remember dates or names of people and places but I do know that on Ibiza there has been a movement of peoples over its years.

It has this magical draw, a ‘something’ that no one can put into real words. A feeling. A smell. A magic. A spirit.

Recent history, I have a little more handle on. The basics, the influx of foreigners started in the 40s/50s. My parents came in the 70s. Some have stayed and made it home since, some have come and gone. Some stay only a few years. And this continues.

It feels now if you have been here 10 years or more it is a long time. The influx of new foreign residence has been huge, especially over the last couple of years. And it does not stop. It’s a good place for families with young children.

But there has also been many who have left.

I have told this story a thousand times, when I left in the 80s to go back to London to secondary school, no one knew the place, everyone in my 1000s pupil school said, what, where? An island in the Mediterranean Sea? It was like I had landed from Mars. Only One teacher new that Terry Thomas had a house here, that was so comforting, it was on the hill behind where I grew up. He is actually one of the only teachers I remember from those school years! And then two years in, I was the envy of all, for getting to spend my summer holidays in Ibiza.

Ibiza became famous.

It is still transient.

It draws you in, it pushes you around, it can spit you out, or sends you off in delight.

This lovely family lived here 12 years. Their kids were born here, they loved the island but had to leave. They wanted to have these paths they walked, the garden they played in, the memories, captured forever. So they could re visit all the way from Australia. Forever.