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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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By Lynch Mob
July 9th 2006

Los Toros Locos y Gringos con Cahones Grande!

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Plaza Mayor
Around 4am

There’s no good reason to have Run with the Bulls other than it seemed like a good idea at the time. Hemmingway must have seen something genius and manly about the festival of San Fermin and wasn’t old Ernest considered a Man among Men? Either way, it really wasn’t as scary as the Blooper reel you’ve seen on TV would indicate. Can you die while running with the Bulls? Yes. Can you get gored by an angry Bull and become paralyzed? Yes (and in fact someone did a few days prior to my run). But then again there’s an element of [View Full Entry]

By GypsyKing
July 9th 2006

Dreams of Sangria...

Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona

Metro in Madrid

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]

By Grapevine follower
July 8th 2006

San Fermines

Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona

before going out

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]

By Kez Dave
July 7th 2006

RUN RUN RUN

Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona

Guess who

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]

By ailee
July 7th 2006

Fiesta San Fermines

Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona

Zaragoza
My first glimpse of Spain

Fiesta San Fermines 2006 Running of the bulls....go toro go !! [View Full Entry]

and the week long drinking marathon begins

By Jodes
July 2nd 2006

Under The Influence .. Possibly The Best Week Of My Life

Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona

Bull Run Day 2

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]

Matty and Boozehag (aka Kate, Bus 4 tour leader)

By Iossif Xeromo
June 14th 2006

Víspera de un Viaje

Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona

El Camino
Un letrero saliendo de Pamplona.

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]

By Iossif Xeromo
May 15th 2006

Del Clima en Pamplona

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La calle de Abejeras
Esto es en Pamplona (observen el cielo a lo largo de las fotos).

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]

By Iossif Xeromo
March 24th 2006

Cena japonesa!

Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona

Cuando ya se iban...
Cuando ya se iban las japonesas, les tomé esta foto. Es genial como se ven cada una en un lugar diferente.

¿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]

By Eggs on Legs
September 15th 2005

Espana Por Favor

Europe » Spain » Navarre » Pamplona

Hola!
This is us at the border between France and Spain

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]

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