A couple of street vendors of mojitos plant a large cardboard box on the Paseo Marítim in Barcelona, ??a kind of improvised bar counter. “Mojito, mojito”, the men shout happily. Another does his own with a typical Ikea coffee table.
Meanwhile dozens of beer can peddlers hover over the sand. The street vendors without permission did not want to waste the revelry of the night of Sant Joan and took over the center of Barcelona. “Cerveza beer, cold beer”, they insisted each other.
And they didn’t just offer mojitos and beers, street vendors also sold roses, sarongs, light-up toys… And the vendors spread their banners mainly around the Museum of History of Catalonia, next to the Barceloneta neighbourhood.
Even pedicabs could be seen in the vicinity again! This submerged business already seemed completely banished from the city, for a year, since last summer, but given the calendar, some drivers decided to take a risk and take the dusty vehicle out of the garage.
The government of the new mayor, the socialist Jaume Collboni, announced its intention to tighten the siege on street vendors without permission in the city this summer precisely at the press conference to present the security device on the night of Sant Joan.
The wingers also posted a lot of corners in the center of Barcelona, ??especially in the Gòtic and Raval neighborhoods, and also in La Rambla. These vendors, however, were more discreet than those on the coast. Some of them traveled by bicycle, but they did not set up any bar furniture.
And in this way they nurtured a few parties, some of them already programmed and others rather improvised, like the rave they put on in Plaça dels Àngels, in front of the Macba, for a long time, with a DJ and everything, with a mixing desk. mounted on a supermarket trolley.
