Timea and I visited Ibiza in May 2026 for a warm break and to finish off our Balearic Islands collection. While over there I remembered that my parents took my sister Lisa there in 1972 when she was 2. This kicked off our occasional quest to recreate old family photos in the same locations.

Dalt Villa - Ibiza Old Town

Cala Longa Beach

Finding this one gave us the most amusement. Finding the Dalt Vila locations was fairly easy as we just had to wander around Ibiza Old Town until we found the exact places. Google Lens and some AI-enabled searching helped too.

The beach photo below was a bit trickier as the resort wasn’t obvious. My first attempt at solving it with Google AI told me: “This is the Bay of San Antonio (Bahía de San Antonio) on the west coast of Ibiza. The man in the photograph is Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. The Gibb family had strong ties to Ibiza at the time: his parents relocated to the island in late 1971, and the brothers frequently visited.”. This was immediately suspicious as San Antonio isn’t on the west of the island and, as far as I was aware, my dad wasn’t in the Bee Gees. I was intrigued though and some further research confirmed the Maurice did visit Ibiza at the time and he did look a little like my dad at the time. Maurice was married to the singer Lulu back then who did look a little like my mum.

After a couple more attempts I managed to work out that the Beach was Cala Longa, conveniently just 15 minutes from the hotel where we were staying. We couldn’t match the camera angles and the beach seemed to have been widened since then but it was definitely the place. You can see the old hotels still there but extended upwards.

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