Immersion into Formentera's totems

Totem formentera, a photograph by Davide Baraldi on sale on Fotolia website.

Aubrey Powell on Formentera
I love it. I first came here forty-one years ago with David Gilmour, and then the year afterwards with Syd Barrett. … It’s so beautiful. It is the light, and the water, and the general simplicity of Formentera. Also it was kind of difficult to get to. … So it was an effort to get there, you know, it was a rather remote place. But a lot of writers, painters and musicians gravitated there. … It was something I saw very early on; the particular vistas and landscapes that you get here in Formentera which are very Dali-esque.

Other mentions of Syd Barrett in Formentera
Once, there was lying Syd Barrett, when they improvised music happenings in the caves of La Mola, the “high” part (about 200 meters) of the island, dominated by a lighthouse quoted by Jules Verne in his literary fantasies...

A large and rather special beach like Mitjorn obviously offers a vast range of different eateries and chiringuitos along it’s 4km length, but anyone with an eye to combining a trip to the beach with a bit of culture will probably set their sights on the Pirata Bus chiringuito. I say set their sights because it took four attempts to locate this elusive rock ‘n roll museum and neither Pink Floyd nor Bob Dylan happened by on this particular visit.

Located just 30 minutes by ferry from the buzzing Ibiza Town, arriving on Formentera is akin to discovering another planet compared to what you have left behind on the White Island. … You’ll still find some throwbacks to that culture manning the stalls at the hippie markets in Formentera’s villages. Here, trinkets and jewellery are hawked to the Italian and German tourists who make up the bulk of the visitors during the summer season. It’s a far cry from a crazed Syd Barrett at large, but the original hippies would be happy to know that the hazy, laid-back atmosphere they knew when they had the place to themselves is still intact.