There is no doubt that summer is a time for rest and disconnection. The heat does not help with work, and studying while friends are at the pool is a more than complicated challenge, especially when there are no retakes in September. But if there are suspended (not achieved) subjects in the report cards and you want to start the course better than you finished it, many families consider combining the necessary rest and disconnection with this "catching up". How many hours should be dedicated each day? A private tutor or should we let them do it freely? Should other summer activities be given up? We talk to the managers of L’Acadèmia, a study center in Mollerussa that accompanies students all year round but which also has its doors open in the summer for all those families who find themselves in similar situations.

Hair fibers suffer greatly during the summer: solar radiation dries out and discolors hair, and sea and pool water don't help either. Although Neus Garcia, manager of Neus Hair Salon in Badalona, ​​​​recommends preventing the negative effects by protecting and hydrating your hair properly, and avoiding the use of hairdryers, flat irons, or curling irons during the summer, she offers some tips to recover your usual tone once this period is over.

The project to regenerate the seabed of the Olympic Port Barcelona is moving in the right direction. This was stated this Tuesday at a press conference by Mayor Jaume Collboni, who reviewed the first year of the implementation of the fifty artificial reefs that were submerged in this area in the spring of 2024. "In just one year, these structures have become a refuge and breeding ground for more than a hundred," the mayor stated. This image contrasts with the seabed in this area forty years ago, when constant industrial waste had turned it into lifeless mud.

Despite the long shadow of the delta variant, the horizon for European economies is becoming clearer. On Wednesday, the European Commission improved its outlook for the Spanish economy's growth by three tenths of a percentage, after having already revised them upwards in its last estimate in May. Therefore, it now believes that the state's GDP will rebound by 6.2% in 2021, mainly thanks to the advancement of the health situation, the rapid progress of the vaccination campaign and the gradual lifting of restrictions. This is one of the largest rebound in the European Union, behind only Romania, Ireland and Hungary.

The tourism sector is beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel. The online travel agency eDreams has surpassed the activity it recorded before the pandemic in June of this year. Specifically, the company has managed 2% more bookings than in June 2019, which it attributes both to the good rates of vaccination and the easing of restrictions aswell as the digital nature of the company, which is bringing customers who previously would have used other means. That said, these bookings are still on average for less than they were before the pandemic.