All four of them appear there, at a stop halfway through the journey, with the fun attitude of a family vacation. These motorhome trips are also behind the Xerigots space that Gemma Urgell and her partner, Jordi Bertran, created in Vilafranca del Penedès. Now they have published Formatges (Rosa dels Vents), with recipes and advice, and also the explanation of their trade: that of a cheese refiner.

The sunglasses in her hands betray the age of the image. "It's not that I want to look younger," Matilde Ferrer excuses herself with a laugh, it's that the photograph in that Berlin restaurant reminds her of the happy trip she took with her children and she always likes to look at it again. In the background, there is no green or any plant to be seen. Nor any of the flowers that she has dedicated herself to hybridizing for more than forty years.

Head bowed and covered by a hat and hands on the bell ropes. Francesc Llop sees his profession in the gesture of his profile picture: when the rest of us mortals hear a sound, we lift our heads; a bell ringer, on the other hand, lowers his. The sound may announce a passing bell. The anthropologist and manager of the websitecampaners.com also explains the reason for his hat: it is well known that pigeons have an acquired taste for bell towers.

Everyone thinks that fora comes from Greek, but its origin is different. Kike Esnaola's WhatsApp photo is the logo of @forapsico, the account with which he began his outreach work on psychology during the pandemic. Fora comes from Foratata, the crag in the Aragonese Pyrenees where as a teenager he felt he could “be without judgment”. In April he published Habitando el malestar (Planeta).

Doctor Bonaventura Clotet (Barcelona, 1953) ensures that the information he offers is correct while he speaks: he types—with two fingers—any factual data into his computer before considering it accurate. The director of IrsiCaixa and founder of Fight Against Infections has another role that is probably less well-known: he has been, since 2017, an honorary member of the Cava Brotherhood of Sant Sadurní.

"I am the concrete one", assures Miguel Pita, geneticist and professor at the UAM, with a laugh. On WhatsApp, his profile picture is a fragment of an abstract painting by his father, the architect and painter Juan Pita. The scientist has published El cerebro enamorado (Periférica, 2025), an informative book about the biology of love, from the first sting to the last argument.

The actress and singer Júlia Bonjoch (Cardedeu, 1994) speaks with the ARA while walking through the fields of her father's village. Until October 18, Bonjoch plays Blanca in La truita (Teatre Poliorama), a play where food brings family conflicts to the table.

She looks at the camera, half-smiling, from her office at the University of California, Irvine. Elizabeth Loftus, 81, has spent half a century studying memory, and she speaks about her own recollections with scepticism: as she has been repeating for decades, memory is like a Wikipedia page —other people can go in and change it, and so can time.

Fashion designer Teresa Helbig (Barcelona, 1963) receives ARA at the showroom that the brand has on Mallorca Street in Barcelona. Each piece and each object has a story that Helbig explains with passion, vitality, and joy. Happy with the reception the retrospective dedicated to her by the Museo del Traje in Madrid has had –and hoping to be able to bring it to Barcelona as well–, the designer shows an imaginary that has been nourished by everything she has seen, felt, tasted, and drunk.Have you ever heard of Terra Remota? How did you get there?

Black is Paco Méndez's favorite color: it reigns over a good part of his left arm and on the logo and walls of his restaurant. And also, of course, in his profile picture, with his initials inside a circle, which is the shape of another of his passions: vinyl records.Where does your passion for haute cuisine come from?

Júlia Riera (Alt Empordà, 1999) is the creator of Daily Catalan, the largest online Catalan learning channel for foreigners. She has just published her first book, Let's Speak Català! (Penguin), which mixes history, language, culture and, as it could not be otherwise, gastronomy.

An inscription engraved in Roman capitals with the letters EN and others that are only hinted at. Jardí has chosen for his profile picture a fragment of a tombstone from the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona, which could –could, he says– coincide with part of his name.They told me I was affected for writing with certain fonts.

Josep Bordes (Ulldecona, 1978) is the singer of La Colla Pirata and Pepet i Marieta, a group that is performing its final tour closing concert this Friday. From the Terres de l'Ebre, Bordes took with him a vermouth recipe in five steps and the memory of a bottle of white wine from Batea that he hated as a child and now adores. ARA has interrupted —a mortal sin— his Monopoly game with his son.

The question surprises and amuses him at once. Marc Abrahams cannot remember his own WhatsApp profile picture. He tries to remember it for a few seconds, and a few more, until he concludes, "It's beyond memorable."

The journalist Èric Lluent (Barcelona, 1986) tries not to think too much about the distance separating him from his native Gràcia. Arriving in Reykjavík for the first time ten years ago, he is now preparing a podcast about the origins of modern terrorism, an interest that was already hinted at in La bomba del Liceu (Ara Llibres, 2026), his latest essay, which talks about the man who planted the bomb at the Gran Teatre.

Although she has lived in Museros for thirty years and is moved by the neighbors taking the cool air on the street, the writer Gemma Pasqual (Almoines, 1967) considers herself an unashamed city dweller. The author, who was vice-president of Acció Cultural del País Valencià and is especially known for her works of youth literature, defines herself as a "pleasure-seeker" and explains that, concerning vermouth, she likes everything, even the lemon peel.

The art director Jordi Dalmau (Granollers, 1975) speaks as if his mind were in constant effervescence. Known as the "boy of the wings" in the world of bridal design, he has returned to his hometown after years of successes and difficulties in Madrid. He now divides his time between Catering Lebrija, with whom he prepares "crazy and creative" weddings; the design of a grass-scented cosmetic, and La Floristeria, the café-florist shop he runs in the city. At the moment we are having this conversation, however, what excites him most is ube, the Filipino drink he discovered on TikTok and which is already a hit at his bar.The world of bridal fashion must be a world full of champagne.

Francesc Serés (Saidí, 1972) is a writer. Author, among many others, of La pell de la frontera, La casa de foc –Proa Novel Prize and Llibreter Prize–, La mentida més bonica and El primer any, he has been living in Graz for almost three years, about two hours by car from Vienna. Serés' relationship with wine is marked by a bad relationship with sulfites and distrust towards those sold as "100% sulfite-free".

David Janer (Granollers, 1973) repeats himself: he has not abandoned his acting career. Known for his roles in Águila Roja, Amar es para siempre and El cor de la ciutat, he combines his acting vocation with the dissemination of two worlds that have passionate him for years: philosophy – especially classical – and wine, in the series Enológica, which will premiere its third season, and on his social networks. Aware of the power of union and conversation of the drink, when invited to dinner at home Janer always brings a book or a bottle of wine.

Joan Pera (Mataró, 1948) has one of the most recognizable and beloved voices in Catalonia. Sixty years on stage and a long history of memorable characters and voice acting do not prevent him from assuring, with laughter, that he is not "a very good actor." A defender of authenticity, in conversation, on stage, and at the table, the actor sees in wine a magic similar to that which he sees in theater.Where is this magic found?