Profile of the month
Mª Fernanda Campa, the perfect hostess
Born in San Xuan d’Amandi, in the municipal district of Villaviciosa, she is an Asturian, born and bred. In fact, when she receives me in her land, even her accent changed and our conversation was full of nouns and verbs that I didn’t understand and that needed to be explained.
A bird’s eye view of La Axarquía
Sigfrido had proposed flying up to the heavens in a gyroplane, a machine that he became infatuated with in full pandemic and which, now, in addition to being a hobby, has become his means of transport because it allows him to save a great deal of time when moving from place to place.
The curious technologist
Miguel Ángel Gómez (Badajoz, 1971) is a trained chemist and has great curiosity about all fields related to technology. He has assembled and disassembled his Tesla more than five times and has personally installed the solar panels and batteries for his house.
Silvia de Juanes, steely determination
Silvia de Juanes is 42 years old and she is the mother of two girls, Isabel and Carlota. She meets me at Atocha station with Germanic punctuality. From there we go to her house, in the ‘last street of Madrid’, very close to the German School, which her daughters attend.
Carlos Ledó, a serial entrepreneur
We are at the iconic Veles i Vents de la Marina building in Valencia. Bavaria, the sailing catamaran belonging to the professional entrepreneur Carlos Ledó (Valencia, 1974) is moored in front of us.
María José Sánchez, “I’ve got many lives”
“I’ve got many lives.” During the day I spent with her, she said this phrase several times. By the end of the interview, I understood her perfectly.
Mariano Zapata, “I’m a bad loser”
Literally born in the countryside (Sucina) in 1963, where his grandparents and his parents worked on the country estate belonging to some aristocrats from Madrid, the Marquis and Marquise of Spínola. By his first birthday, his parents had moved to El Mirador, a village to the north of San Javier, in search of a better life.
Jesús Barranco. The daring cook
From Almeria, 40-year-old Jesús Barranco is an architect turned businessman. His profile on LinkedIn is an intensive list of masters and postgraduate degrees: from ESADE,
Cecilio Peregrín, Primaflor
A chip off the old block. Cecilio Peregrín (Águilas, 1961) is the fifth of nine children and he is named after his father. In the
Joaquín Hidalgo, the friendly conversationalist
Joaquín is a friendly man, a good conversationalist and, as he himself says, with a calm demeaner, but very highly-strung on the inside.
Antonio Agudo; The melon wanderer
At the age of 60, he has spent half of his life as a melon wanderer. His parents and 700 of the 1,000 families who lived in the town, used to migrate for 6 months of the year.
Félix García, The tenacious entrepreneur
Félix García (Barcelona, 1974) is a man with slightly unusual ideas. He studied Economics, but he taught himself to be a biotechnologist, by reading and
The horse whisperer
Vicente Puchol (50 years old, Foios, Valencia) finds it very difficult to smile; however, he is an eloquent, enlightening man, a volcano of words.
