La Mola lighthouse, on Formentera’s eastern tip. I hid under a camel-hair Berber tent on the beach to shade myself from the intense Mediterranean sun, next to a young woman from Atlanta who was ...

This small Balearic island is all turquoise coves, dusty tracks and lazy sunsets, but living in Formentera full-time is a very different story from a week’s holiday. Day‑to‑day life here means ...