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Background: Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power. Spain remained neutral in World Wars I and II, but suffered through a devastating civil war (1936-39). In the second half of the 20th century, Spain has played a catch-up role in the western international community; it joined the EU in 1986. Continuing challenges include Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorism and further reductions in unemployment.




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7/7/06 10:08pm Newark, New Jersey Tarmac. I’m sitting on the 767 right now finally flying to Madrid. It began as a comedy of errors, like most travel does these days. We got the airport in plenty of time to relax, go through security and we were both aghast that neither of us got searched. Then promptly found the Tequileria bar and proceeded to pound a few tall Dos Equis and tell everyone within shouting distance that these two gringos were headed to sure oblivion in Pamplona to run with the bulls! We even started singing that stupid cheer from the Mexican [View Full Entry]

GypsyKing - Gypsy King Adventures | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 13th 2006 | 133 Views | [diary=72810]

Train station in Madrid

San Fermines, well what can I say, it´s a non stop, crazy party. There are close to a million people running through Pamplona which city of 200,000 people. Everyone is dressed in white with their red bandanas and belts. Every year it starts on the 6th and lasts for a week. The running of the bulls start at eight and it last only a couple of minutes until they enter the bull ring. I thought I could party but this kicked my ass. On the first night we didn´t sleep until 10:30 and the next day I was so tired but [View Full Entry]

Grapevine follower - Kristine Hodsdon | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 17th 2006 | 168 Views | [diary=74384]

friends
Javier
me

By Kez Dave
July 7th 2006
RUN RUN RUN Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona
6 days, 1200 people, ???? tents, ????sangria,???? beers, no sleep, long bus rides---sound interesting--- well it was and I'd do it again. We left for Pamplona on day one, not a good start on both our parts by taking the right bus but not getting off at the intended stop. A extra train ride and we were at the bus pick-up point 20 minutes later than we should have been. No problems there, straight on the bus and off to Pamplona. A 20 hour bus ride was taking its toll straight away when we realised no air conditioning was the call [View Full Entry]

Kez Dave - Out of the Rock!! | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 15th 2006 | 159 Views | [diary=74415]

San Sebastian
Pamplona Streets
Friends

By ailee
July 7th 2006
Fiesta San Fermines  Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona
Fiesta San Fermines 2006 Running of the bulls....go toro go !! [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 3rd 2006 | 158 Views | [diary=108106]

A hot protester
not so hot protesters
and the week long drinking marathon begins

San Fermin Festival, Pamplona, 2006 I hadn’t planned to start out this way. Still quite substantially wrecked from the previous 2 nights inebriations and sleep deprivation, I boarded the coach in London for the 22 hour journey to Pamplona with a blank mind in more than one sense. However, it seemed the same for many others also so it was more a case of letting the intoxications continue rather than commence. For the next 8 days we, collectively to be known as Bus 4 (it’s a coach not a bus!), are to reach, push and ultimately break the limitations of our [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 23rd 2006 | 264 Views | [diary=77309]

11am and cant stop the base??
Matty and Boozehag (aka Kate, Bus 4 tour leader)
Aaron

Esta entrada es tan solo una especie de anuncio. Lo que pasa es que, gracias al apoyo “back home”, voy a hacer el Camino de Santiago. El 16 de este mes salgo para León, y allí comenzará todo. Son alrededor de unos 300 kilómetros para recorrer desde León hasta Santiago de Compostela, pero se recorren en 10 días si se va muy rápido o 15 días si se va lento. Son en realidad muchos los caminos a Santiago, está por ejemplo el Camino Portugués, el del Norte, la Vía de la Plata, el Camino Primitivo… todos ellos trazando diversas rutas por [View Full Entry]

Iossif Xeromo - Iossif Xeromo | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 14th 2006 | 155 Views | [diary=66482]

Pequeña Pamplona
Campos de Trigo
Vegetación

Bien, sé que no he escrito aquí en épocas. Pero es que no tenía nada interesante que decir. Y como toda persona que no tiene (en mi caso “tenía”) algo interesante que decir, voy a hablar sobre el clima. Pues bien, el clima de Pamplona en Primavera esta LOCO. Con mayúsculas. Esta mañana estaba fresco, tan fresco como para andar con chamarra. Pero en la tarde, a eso de las 2 estaba haciendo un calor… Cuando acabe de comer, salí a caminar sin rumbo para distraerme y postergar obligaciones escolares. Como pueden ver en las fotos, tuve oportunidad de cerciorarme del [View Full Entry]

Iossif Xeromo - Iossif Xeromo | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 16th 2006 | 1178 Views | [diary=59837]

Un convento
Crux
Desde arriba

By Iossif Xeromo
March 24th 2006
Cena japonesa! Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona
¿Cena japonesa en pamplona? Es curiosa la manera en la que se dan las cosas. Hace una semana conoci a dos japonesas con las que platiqué por una cantidad pequeña de tiempo. El viernes (24) en la mañana, las volví a encontrar. Mientras platicabamos, llegaron sus amigas una por una, y al final un amigo. Luego de diez minutos o menos eramos siete personas, platicando sobre todo tipo de cosas. {Al volver a clases, dos compañeras de clase me decian que les dio cosa saludarme entonces porque les intimidaron tantas personas orientales...} El viernes en la tarde las encontré una vez [View Full Entry]

Iossif Xeromo - Iossif Xeromo | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 28th 2006 | 714 Views | [diary=48947]

Dentro del elevador
Yakitori!
Preparando el curry

By Eggs on Legs
September 15th 2005
Espana Por Favor Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona
Huevos Numero dos: Hola! A blog a day keeps the doctor away! We found an internet gaff which uploads the photos PDQ so am taking advantage of this over next couple of days. Drive through the 'pair of knees' was totally amazing. We stopped several times to savour the fresh air, take in the splendid views and listen to the Heidi music coming from the ( what sounded like) millions of cow bells chinking along. I could almost see Clara in her wheelchair, Peter with his twisted little face, and the old Alm Uncle whittling away at bits of rough edged [View Full Entry]

Eggs on Legs - Al, Shaz & Beth | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 10th 2006 | 309 Views | [diary=20409]

Up in the clouds
Chillin at 1709m
The hills are alive.......

By JessRK
July 15th 2005
San Fermin is a Fiesta! Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona
Well... I have NEVER experienced ANYTHING like I did last night. I can´t wait to show you all pictures, but more importantly, video. After our RESTS on the benches, we decided to walk our bags from 1 storage place to another... BIG mistake. Man that sucked because it had to have been pushin 95 out... ouch! So, our feet hurt and we were exhausted... we put our bags in the train station and decided that the train station in Pamplona was our favorite place and I know we´re not alone in that! We took more rests on the grass, but Quynh [View Full Entry]

JessRK - Jess K | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 8th 2005 | 312 Views | [diary=22513]

Pamplona, Spain - group shot with locals
Pamplona, Spain - candles