Bunol, Spain and Canary Islands Travel Blogs

Fruit-Filled Mayhem
Sep 2, 2006

... international smuggling messiness on a bus in Asia, but at least those were to get from Point A to Point B and where Point B was a place I'd be staying a while. But Spain was another story. I did, for the record, work in five days in Barcelona, but I took ...

Mas Tomates!!!!
Aug 30, 2006

Today was La Tomatina!!!!! For those that don't know this is a festival that takes place in Bunol, about an hr outside Valencia, where the object is to just have one massive tomato fight. The origins of the festival are jjust that, one day some guys ...

La Tomatina!
Aug 30, 2006

i´ll post more about this after it happens, but until then, read this! http://www.spanish-fiestas.com/spanish-festivals/la-tomatina-tomato-battle-bunyol.htm

La Tomatina
Aug 30, 2006

My and some fellow students hit Buñol to attend the annual tomato fight called La Tomatina. Pictures will be posted as soon as they email them to me. I wasn´t brave enough to take my camera..

I could'a had a V-8!
Aug 29, 2006 (10 photos)

... I use the term loosely) on Christina Aguilera, but... The next day I had planned to get up early to catch a train to Bunol for the Tomantino, but I just needed more sleep. As it happened, a later train was fine because all there would have been to do ...

Day 5 - Bunol (La Tomatina)
Aug 29, 2007 (37 photos)

... to wait an hour and a half for the bus to show up. After it finally arrived it was a quick 45 minutes trip up to Bunol where the festival was being held. The bus parked up and we all headed down into town along with 40,000 other people all looking to ...

Surfing Gazpacho
Sep 2, 2006 (4 photos)

... much other than eating dinner and having a couple of drinks with the guys I met in Madrid because it was an 8:00 a.m. train to Bunol on August 30th, where Tomatina occurs.  As I mentioned, I have no photos because the zip-lock bag my camera was in ...

La Tomatina
Aug 26, 2007 (35 photos)

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I LOVE GAZPACHO..........................
Sep 27, 2004 (11 photos)

... AP Press: Tomatina "Revellers hurl tomatoes at each other during the annual tomato-throwing festival known as the Tomatina, in Bunol, eastern Spain. Over 100 tonnes of ripe tomatoes were dumped in the streets for 30,000 revellers to throw at each other ...

La Tomatina!!!
Aug 26, 2009

... Tomatina!  For those of you who don't know what it is, it's the main event of a weeklong festival in Buñol, Spain.  It is, plain and simple, a huge tomato fight.  (At this point, some of you will probably be thinking, Oh, I've seen that on ...

La Tomatina (Tomato Fight)!
Aug 29, 2007

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Scandal: Mary showered with 6 guys today!!!
Aug 29, 2007 (26 photos)

... like to be roasted inside a convection oven.  Off to El Corte Ingles, the grand department store of Spain.  We grabbed a quick tuna and onion pie for lunch in their basement supermarket.  We didn't have any luck finding cheap flip flops for ...

Tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes
Aug 29, 2007

... was wearing a frilly white dress she had bought especially to ruin. All three of us fell asleep on the train and were shocked to find it didn't arrive in Bunol until 8.45am. We grabbed something to eat, had a wander around the town and went back to the ...

La Tomatina
Aug 29, 2007 (34 photos)

... to wait an hour and a half for the bus to show up. After it finally arrived it was a quick 45 minutes trip up to Bunol where the festival was being held. The bus parked up and we all headed down into town along with 40,000 other people all looking to ...

La Tomatina
Aug 26, 2009 (17 photos)

... crazy tourists to cram ourselves onto the 9am train from Valencia to Bunol – 30 minutes out of the city! We arrived in Bunol and walked through the small town into the area of festivities. The locals were all out on the closed off roads eating and ...

La Tomatina experience
Aug 27, 2008 (45 photos)

... we did him. Food was good, weather was nice and the waiter was cute. We wend to sleep after 1am that night. And finally the culmination. We got into Bunol at 10am an hour before the carnage was set to kick off, parked the car just outside the town and ...

La Tomatina
Aug 22, 2007

La Tomatina in Buñol, just outside of Valencia.  The biggest mess of Tomatoes in the world!  So much fun!

Buñol Tomatina
Nov 21, 2007 (3 photos)

The Tomatina event takes place each year during a day in the city of Buñol. This is a big popular event in the streets, where people throw themselves tomatoes just for fun, with music, and activities organised by the city. This is definetely a good event, I ...

48 Hour Tomato People
Aug 25, 2009 (15 photos)

TOMATINA SPECIAL The 48 hours between meeting up with the Polish crew at Valencia Station at 9pm Mon and returning from Bunol at 9pm Wed are like nothing we've experienced before (nor particularly compelled to ever again), and the experience has been ...

Tomatina Festival
Aug 25, 2004

... apartment in Constitucion Avenue. Had a great day out with Mustapha before he went to Morocco. We caught a bus to Bunol, a great little town hosting the Tomatina festival. The Spanish know how to party! Thousands and thousands of tourists and Spanish ...

La Tomatina Festival
Aug 26, 2009 (9 photos)

... they shook their head and laughed??? For some reason, Gary got in his head, (I'll blame him), that we'd go to Bunol to participate in the world famous tomato fesitval.  This basically involves throwing very ripe tomatoes at each other, that ...

trip to Buñol
Apr 8, 2007

Buñol - might sound familiar - yes, that's the town or village where they have the TOMATO FIGHT every year...it's always the last wednesday in August...and like people told me really famous - International Ketchup fans come to that town to see and ...