Day trip to Azpeitia
by Roadquill
We made a day trip from Pamplona to
Azpeitia, the home of Ignatius Loyola. Beautiful drive through the Basque countryside. It did take a few hours to get there. Several more hours to eat lunch and wait for the Loyola home to reopen. Not that our Spanish sucked and that waitress did not speak English, but we ordered some fish "con gulas". We had no idea what gulas were, but they sounded innocent enough. They were kind of chewy and not vegetable at all. We later found out they were fake baby eels, made out of fish parts. yummy!
the most stupid
by lostaussie
or drunk people go to sit in front of where the bulls get released so as the bull runs out, it lands on quite a few of them.
there is actully a guy who stands on the gate and ushers everyone in to sit down. the rows of people were at least 8 deep meaning that these bulls would have to be able to jump about 4-5m to avoid landing on people.
take it from me- bulls dont jump that far!!!!
surprisingly though, everybody got up after each bull was released so having a 500kg animal landing on you is obviously not the handicap that most people would expect it to be.
Pamplona and San Fermin
by DSwede
Pamplona is a beautiful old city, with many courtyards, museums, churches, narrow streets and friendly shops. But the claim to fame is the San Fermin festival.
Why do people say that bulls are dangerous? That's what I went to go find out over the weekend. Working in Tarragona, two friends and I car pooled up to Pamplona to get the first hand report.
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Hotel Pamplona
Town Hall
Memories of Versailles
Monument to Garcilaso de la Vega
