San Fermin Fiestas & Running of the Bulls...

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Where to start...
Well this blog is almost a month over due and I know I cant do The San Fermin parties justice by trying to explain how huge and fun the festival is. Working for Party Professionals was a blast and many friends were made and there was alot of laughs, nudity, beers, sangria, bad smells and stories each morning, Arriving on the 31st we (Tim, Tim P, Pauly, Sam, Dan B, Russ and myself) met the other 25 or so working for PP, mostly kiwis and aussies. We spent a couple of days putting up tents with free alcohol provided which did cause a bit of mayhem but the job was done. Once the campers arrived, about 600 more kiwis, aussies, saffas, and pomies you can imagine the state of the site after a day. But we managed to get throu the week, serve breaky each morn to the campers that woke up and dance the day and night away in Boogie St and anywhere with some space. The pool in the camp site was heavenly and Nutz (a northland bro) and I spent almost every arvo soaking in the sun and sippin a JDs beside it. There was to much going on to remember but I was probably the best time of my life and Im definatly heading back for it again,


As I only took a few photos here is a link to Russ's blog page of San Fermin festivals. It an awesome blog so I reckomend checking it out. Hes done a much better job with the camera and remembering side of it. My photos are so crap as I took them with a disposiable and then have photographed the printed disposibale photos with my Digital. Hope you can see throu the murky haze, stay choise everyone
much love
Dan

http://www.travelblog.org/fred.php?id=14260

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Photos

Midday and the party begins!!
Absolute maddness, thousands of people shoulder to shoulder covered in mustard,flour,eggs,sauce and of course sangria!

About 30 mins later
Recovering with Tim and Sam

Street parties!
And so begins 7 days of 24 hr parties everywhere and anywhere, bands dance throu the streets with people following and dancing with them

The Muscle Bar
The crazyist and stupidist thing ive seen, throwing your drunkn body off the top of this statue into a group of equally pissed dudes, recipe for disaster, it was carnage

Tinky Winky, Nutz and Me, Daa
Alot of Sangria was consumed this morning

After the bull run
Entering the Stadium had to be one of the highlights of the week, thousands of people cheering and dancing. The atmosphere was amazing!

Check out the crowds
Once the gates we all ran throu were closed they let out smaller (still huge) bulls and they run around plowing everyone in sight, got the heart pounding a bit qiucker than normal

All in one piece
After the run for a cool down beer, glad to see we all made it

Snapshot from the local newspaper
I am in this photo in my garden hat just under the flag, goodluck!