Encierro; After You Run with Bulls… What do you do, now? San Fermin Festival, continued.

“At noon we were all at the cafe. It was crowded. We were eating shrimps and drinking beer. The town was crowded. Every street was full.” – Hemingway With so much excitement from the run, it is easy to forget that it is barely 0830! The day evolves, the food and drink continue to make […]

Encierro; What it is like to Run with the Bulls, San Fermin Festival, Pamplona, Spain, 2016 (Part 1)

The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.” – Ernest Hemingway, “The Sun Also Rises” The warm beaches of Northern Spain greeted me from outside […]