“I'm going to Catalunya Ràdio, to Diagonal-Beethoven,” I tell him absentmindedly to the taxi driver. Any taxi driver who has passed the taxi driver exam knows where this station is, or, if they don't, they know how to identify the streets I've mentioned. The man looks at me and makes no gesture. “There, at Via Veneto,” I tell him, then. Because Via Veneto is also the restaurant all taxi drivers know. He opens his eyes wider. He says nothing. I understand that he doesn't know what I'm talking about, but since he doesn't speak, I don't know if he's unaware of the address or the language I'm speaking to him in. “At Francesc Macià,” I say, then. He opens them even wider.

The truckers' strike is having a direct impact on large food companies. Some have already been forced to stop their activity temporarily because they cannot produce for lack of raw materials or because they cannot distribute their finished products due to the truckers' industrial action.

There are enmities whose intensity does not wane with the passing of time. The confrontation between the taxi sector and the transport app Uber has been a constant since the American company first began operating in Barcelona in 2014. Since then, the company has made two more attempts to return to the Catalan capital. The third was launched this Tuesday, using only by taxis and Catalan platform Social Car's shared cars. Even so, the response of taxi drivers has been the same as in previous attempts. After an assembly at Sants station, the Élite Taxi association has called the first mobilisations to protest against Uber's return. The sector will hold a slow drive through the city on Thursday that will start at Plaça Espanya, past the headquarters of employer association Foment del Treball on Via Laietana and end at the Parliament of Catalonia.