The trucker’s strike in Spain is biting
The truck drivers belonging to Spain’s second largest trucker’s trade union have been on strike since the beginning of this week. So far, although 40% of the filling stations in Catalunya (the NE corner of Spain) are out of fuel, we haven’t had any difficulty getting diesel for the car, but I took the picture above in the supermarket which we stopped at on our way to Valencia to buy some breakfast – you can see the empty fruit and vegetable section.
Yesterday, we did have to queue to fill the car’s tank, but in fact the wait for the van in front of us at the pump we chose was much longer than it should have been as the driver disappeared into the filling station and ate his breakfast before paying – neither we, nor the other drivers behind us were very impressed when we realised what had happened! Over the 2400 km we have driven on this holiday, we have got exactly 5.0 litres/100 km from the car, (Toyota Corolla) which gives us a range of well over 1000 km per tank of diesel. We’re hoping the strike will be over before we set off back, however.