| Page Views: 254 Last Visit to Pamplona: - I Live Here | The World's Greatest Party by markeveleigh - last update: Nov 12, 2005 |
“Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it always was.”
Ernest Hemingway.
At noon on the sixth of July the chupinazo (rocket) explodes above Pamplona’s baroque town hall, heralding the start of Las Fiestas de San Fermin. Every year 700,000 revellers storm this normally sleepy Northern Spanish city for nine days and nine nights of non-stop mayhem, converting it into what has been called ‘the hell-raising capital of the world.’ |
|  | Pamplona victims - from shortly after midday on 6th July until the early hours of 15th the streets of Pamplona are littered with the bodies of ‘the fallen.’ |
The anti-bullfight league - ever more active in Spain - is not about to sit down on the job. | | |
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| Pros: | "There is only one place in the world to be on siete de julio!" | | Cons: | "...the pnuemonia that comes as a result of 9 days of 'good living' Pamplona style" | | In A Nutshell: | ""My body is a temple"....Temple of Doom...?" |
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Geisha_Girl Wed Nov 23, 2005 02:34 UTC
I'll take a raincheck on " une petite verre" in Spain, Mark (until May!) After Ethiopia....before mounting Kilimanjaro...and before finally collapsing in St. Bart's! ;-)) Next year's "To Do" list is hysterical.....Olé! Olé ! |
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