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March 13, 2022 Life / Travel

The Best Little Shop in the World (Part III)

The good times have returned to a remote and spectacular part of Lanzarote as the pandemic finally burns out and fat foreigners arrive.

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January 1, 2022 Life / Travel

The Best Little Shop in the World (Part II)

Getting away from it all — yet again — amid the roar of family and the festive season.

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October 12, 2021 Reportage / Travel

After Covid, An American Invasion of a Greek Party Island

By William J. Furney “Are all y’all bonding over there?” the bearded, hulking figure of an African-American bellows into his phone as I walk past him in a narrow and

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September 12, 2021 Travel

The Best Little Shop in the World

Spending time in remote places brings real challenges, but they can make you all the more appreciative when you get back home.

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September 5, 2021 Travel

Lost, and Sadly Found, Amid the Cactus Fields of Macaronesia

By William J. Furney Resources are scarce on these Macaronesian islands. There is no rain, and life — plant and animal — clings on, desperately hoping for some kind of

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August 28, 2021 Travel

Dropping Out, Tuning In

By William J. Furney In a year marked by the loss of my father, whom I had lived with and helped care for during the past decade of his ill

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June 6, 2021 Travel

Is Air Travel About to Experience a Revolutionary Boom?

By William J. Furney It’s all about speed and today’s crop of jetliners just don’t measure up. So says new US aviation firm Boom Supersonic. The Denver-based company’s mission is

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November 8, 2020 Reportage / Travel

Travel in a Time of Coronavirus 

By William J. Furney Garda (Irish police) checkpoints, traffic jammed and snaking back further than the eye can see, everything except places of business selling “essential services” shuttered for over

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May 9, 2020 Reportage / Travel

A Rude Sahara Sandstorm Diversion That Went Viral

By William J. Furney I am wondering if it’s possible that I’m sitting across the narrow aisle from the most annoying person in the world. In a blaring brash voice,

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February 8, 2020 Reportage / Travel

What a Sight: Mystical Men and Magical Machines

By William J. Furney Half an hour before heading to the airport for a flight to Istanbul, I realised I didn’t have a visa and my passport was invalid.  It

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