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May 24, 2022 Life / Reportage

El Apartamento

Apartment living is supposed to be easy. But with truculent neighbours and incessant noise, it’s anything but.

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April 20, 2022 News

Spanish ‘World First’ Octopus Farm to Start Construction Despite Global Protests

Despite outrage and protests around the world, a Spanish seafood company is due to begin construction of a controverial octopus farm.

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April 17, 2022 Reportage

Swinging in the Sand: Unbridled Exhibitionism and Voyeurism in Gran Canaria

Despite the threat of jail and fines, frisky couples still gravitate towards the protected Maspalomas Dunes for open-air swinging.

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February 6, 2022 News / Reportage

The Art of the Protest, Octopus-Style

Animal-rights activists gathered at government buildings in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to protest against a controversial octopus farm.

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January 23, 2022 News / Reportage

‘Killed for Tapas’: World’s First Octopus Farm Planned on Spanish Island Amid Outcry

Scientists, animal rights activists and conservationists are outraged about the development on a Spanish island of an octopus farm.

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November 14, 2021 Reportage

Gran Canaria’s Al Fresco Sex Scene Has Many Hot and Bothered

Men searching for sex in the protected Maspalomas Dunes are breaking the law and despoiling a protective reserve amid a lack of policing.

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August 1, 2021 Reportage

The Conning Coronavirus Doctor

By William J. Furney The petite, rotund and effervescent Indian doctor standing in front of me is gushing about how much cheaper she is for coronavirus travel tests than the

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June 27, 2021 Reportage

Conversations with Skulls

By William J. Furney In an airy, high-ceilinged room with creepily creaking floorboards in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the scenic capital of the tiny volcanic island that’s part of

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November 22, 2020 Commentage

Unwelcome Strangers in a Very Strange Land

By William J. Furney MASPALOMAS — They move like spooked yet expectant ghosts in this fat land. Their exotic, ebony skin is an anomaly on an homogenous island renowned for

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May 16, 2020 Commentary

Living Over the Edge, in Tumultuous Times

By William J. Furney On Wednesday afternoon this week as I was shopping in a supermarket in Gran Canaria, my basket filling up with quinoa, avocado oil and avocados, spelt

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