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August 14, 2022 Reportage / Travel

Writing 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.

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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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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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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 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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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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September 19, 2021 Reportage

Blowing 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

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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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