News from El Punt Avui

Mertixell Riba
ICU NURSE

“We were overwhelmed and didn’t even have enough material”

Laia Turon
PHYSIOTHERAPIST

“I cried a lot and I’m afraid all this will come back, but I would do it again”

The year of the pandemic

THE LAST WORD

War of words

THE LAST WORD

NOWHERE TO GO

HEADING FOR THE HILLS

Watershed

I have stood many times on the red rock by the river, deep in the winter shadows. The sun never touches the base of this Priorat valley during the shortest days of the year. It can be unnervingly quiet...

THE CULTURAL TIGHTROPE

POWER to the people

HEADING FOR THE HILLS

David and Goliath

David is looking you full in the eye. Do not look away.You know me a little by now. I am, fundamentally, just like you. I love my family beyond words. I need and appreciate community. Living a loving,...

Long-term resident

Hell’s kitchen

As I write, scandal after scandal is bubbling its way up out of the darker conduits of the Spanish state, revealing a network of corruption, dirty tricks, coercion, blackmail, and illegal funding that...

THE LAST WORD

Sophie’s CHOICE