Destinations

The Festival of San Fermín | Roger Starkey | Spain, Navarra, Pamplona

The entire city is given over to the festive spirit and any attempt to resist this spirit, including being clad in non-white attire, will most likely attract a look of pity

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Bulls, Booze and Bedlam | Mark Eveleigh | Spain, Navarra, Pamplona

Even Hemingway – who invariably chose to study ‘violent death’ from a well-appointed balcony – never claimed that running with the bulls was the sort of activity for sensible, well-adjusted citizens

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Part of the Stampede | Mark Eveleigh | Spain, Navarra, Pamplona

The town hall plaza and all the cobbled streets of the old town become a swirling river of white costumes, flashing with the scarlet flotsam of bandannas and sashes

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Out with the Old, In with the Nudes | Mark Eveleigh | Spain, Navarra, Pamplona

“Pamplona is changed of course,” wrote Hemingway, during one of his last visits to the fiestas of San Fermin, “but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink it got very much the same as it always was”

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