But along with the clubbing, Ibiza has also acquired a reputation in Britain as a locus of dangerous debauchery, fuelled by an abundance of alcohol and drugs.
Certainly, if you go to Ibiza looking for young Britons behaving badly you do not have to search very hard. Almost all the action is confined to one resort on the west of the island, San Antonio. The young, mainly English, package-holidaymakers make themselves conspicuous. The centre of mayhem is the so-called “West End”, a squalid junction of pubs and discos near the waterfront. Here, as one seasoned observer puts it, holidaymakers turn a