The migrant boat capsized off the coast of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, amid more migrant arrivals, including to other Spanish islands.
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Too Many Tourists in Our Local Areas, Say Spanish, as Country Leads Anti-Tourism Sentiment in Europe: Poll
More people in Spain than elsewhere in top European holiday desintations decry what they see as a wave of tourism that’s harming their lives.
Continue readingSpanish World-First Octopus Farm ‘May Be Scrapped’
Severe financial problems at a Spanish seafood firm may force it to cancel a controversial octopus farm in Gran Canaria.
Continue readingBritish Nurse Is ‘Latest Victim of Dr Serai, Gran Canaria’s Ruthless Con Doctor’; Bill for Nearly €800 for Earache
English mother charged almost €800 for son’s earache treatment and urged by doctor to fraudulently take out medical insurance while on holiday.
Continue readingSpain’s Proportional Representation System Is Outrageous and Must Be Changed: Yolanda Morales Pérez
PACMA spokesperson says Spain’s government is all talk and no action on a range of issues, and that bullfighting may be on the way out.
Continue readingWriting and Running in Storms
A sojuourn to a remote Canary village, to finish a book and continue training for a marathon, opens up disturbing vistas of human life.
Continue readingEl Apartamento
Apartment living is supposed to be easy. But with truculent neighbours and incessant noise, it’s anything but.
Continue readingSpanish ‘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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingThe Best Little Shop in the World (Part II)
Getting away from it all — yet again — amid the roar of family and the festive season.
Continue readingGran 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.
Continue readingBlowing Your Top in the Canary Islands
By William J. Furney Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez decided to postpone his trip to the UN General Assembly in New York and head to the Canary Islands, the seven-isle
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingLost, 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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