Tweet So you decided to do it. Put on a head to toe white outfit. Tie a red bandana around your throat and knot a red sash at your waist. You are on the street by 7:00 am, jumping up and down to clear sleep from your eyes, stretching out your legs to prepare yourself. [...]
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Tweet It’s the hiss. When the air stops dead and pauses. You draw in breath as your ears tune out other noise and focus on that hiss. A train’s wheels making contact with the track, until it’s magnitude bears upon you and the nose and body materializes. It’s the unknown. When you board that train [...]
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Tweet “The bulls are big and mean and dangerous. They don’t take any prisoners. Luckily the surgeons in Pamplona are experts in treating gorings. After all, they get a lot of practice. You should try to watch the bull run first from the balcony, the day before. It is only then thay you’ll realize the [...]
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Tweet Truth be told, running of the bulls requires a lot more than a flagrant disregard for your personal safety. Physical fitness, the ability to think fast on your toes, and knowing what to expect are all vital pieces to the bull-running survival puzzle. If you checked out our 5 resources to prepare for the [...]
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Tweet San Fermin is an epic event, but let’s face it ladies – it’s hard to know what to expect, whether you plan on running or not. We are honoured to have Lola Akinmade Åkerström introduce us to the intricacies of this world-renowned fiesta of bulls, sangria and afición (passion). Q: You attended San Fermin in [...]
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Tweet Spain is the third largest country in Europe, it’s circumference is 504,782 sq km. The capital is Madrid and its borders extend to the Belearic Islands, the western Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands. With Spain’s reputation for ritual, passion, history and tradition it attracts over 50,000 visitors a year. While this site focuses [...]
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Tweet In the travel world, certain events can generate a fair amount of buzz, and San Fermin is no doubt one of them. For hundreds of years, foreigners have flooded Pamplona to partake in the many layers of the fiesta. During the rest of the year, Pamplona is a mellow city of 300,000 occupants and [...]
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Tweet The announcements have been made, the countdown is on, and the anticipation is mounting. Unless you’ve been under a rock lately, you know that our plucky group of female travellers will be taking Pamplona by storm this July. In all the planning and arrangements, amidst the controversy about the ethics of bull running, and [...]
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Tweet Introducing San Fermin In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes the core of San Fermin: “Suddenly a crowd came down the street. They were all running, packed close together. They passed along and up the street toward the bull-ring, and behind them came more men running faster, and then some stragglers who were [...]
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