Pamplona
Travel Blogs from Pamplona, Spain and Canary Islands
Pamplona Explosions And The Nightlife
Pamplona, Explosions! Exactly at 23:00, multiple explosions and bright lights disturb the otherwise peaceful night sky over Pamplona. The city's nightly fireworks show has began. We are then entertained for about the next 25 minutes by an almost ...
Lost is in the eye of the beholder
On the morning of January 3 we started our journey to Pamplona, Spain where we'd be living and going to school for the next 5 months. We asked the hostel people to call us a cab to take us to the bus station, though we still hadn’t purchased our bus ...
Running of the Bulls
... a crazy bus ride with a drunk Brittish man who goes down there year after year. He was telling us how to be more clever than the Bull. We didnt have a place to stay in Pamplona and slept in a Atm Booth. i got up the next day and did the run at ...
Pamplona, Trying To Run With The Bulls
... Square to see the ball drop and getting there at 11:59:59. Although I have now done both, I prefer the warmth and festive mood of Pamplona than the usually cold and miserable New York City winter. I still celebrate being here with fellow runner and we ...
Crazy doesn´t even explain it....
Crazy is not a word that can explain or justify anything that my experience in Pamplona would be like. I pulled into my campsite with two others I met at the train station and shared a taxi with Stewart and Sam (two Aussies) and came upon our ...
Pamplona
... got some REALLY bad news from home so the train ride was a blur and and it was raining cats and dogs when I got to pamplona and the directions the place gave me were not very good so I had to get a taxi after already being soaked to the bone. ...
the whole story even what you dont want to hear
... to her apt. it was suprisingly nice so we payed the forty euro and headed out to explore the city. Allow me to digress and say that pamplona is absolutely nothing like we had imagined. we were expecting a very gothic small old city with narroz alleys; but ...
San Fermin Opening Ceremony
... sleep, before depositing me in the heart of downtown. 5:00 a.m. on the morning of July 6th. If any of you have been to Pamplona on this day, you already know what happens. Today is the begining of the Festival to San Fermin. Now, I'm not sure who ...
A day in Pamplona en route to Roncesvalles
Yesterday I travelled from Assisi to Rome at 5am, then flew from Rome to Madrid, then trained from Madrid to Pamplona! I´m in Pamplona til this evening, when I´ll bus over the boarder to France to Roncesvalles. Its a bit surreal being here...I¨m ...
St Jean to Pamplona
From St Jean, the next night at Roncesvalles, then Larrasoaña and through to ...
Then Tony & I went to San Fermines
In July 1993, Tony came over to Madrid and we visited the sites as well as going up to Pamplona to the St Fermines festival. Remember the hoovers Toe!? ...
St. Fermine, Pamplona
... horses were raced to pull out the still body of the once powerful animal. Singing and band fanfare burst out. But this being Pamplona, the bullfight is turned into an excuse to party like everything else. Dancing parties of viewers enter ...
Running With the Bulls / World Cup
... in Baden embarked on a Spanish adventure to go on a cross-country road trip, visit the festival of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, and to enjoy a day of surf and sun in the city of San Sebastian on the northern coast. On Friday afternoon, we all ...
Unforgettable Experience
Towards the end of my time in Spain, four friends and I decided to take off to Pamplona for the annual running of the bulls. The festival is called San Fermin which is from July 7th-14th. There is a bull run evey morning for those seven ...
El Encierro
... Afterwards we grabbed our bags and regretfully checked out of the hotel. The train ride from Pamplona back to Madrid was picturesque. Beautiful rolling hills, baked and barren from the sun, interrupted every few miles by the greenest fields. Kevin’s ...
Skoene/shoes
Iemand het gisteraand my skoene gesteel...lekker verjaarsdag geskenk. Gelukkig ry ek eers vanaand bus na St Jean, so nou soek ek nuwe skoene. Eintlik eers oor so 'n uur, want die winkels is nog toe. 'N Hond het my kom troos... Someone stole my hiking ...
La Primera Semana
... was very interesting. Leaving the culture saturated Barcelona, I was excited to see what a completely different region of Spain had to offer. Upon arriving to Pamplona we met up with our host family (mi madre Española) and we proceeded to take a mini ...
Sunday Night
... incredibly slowly but is on the trail again when we start off in the morning. We ended our day in Pamplona. Pamplona is the capital of Navarra province. The old part of the City is surrounded by massive stone walls that you enter ...
Day 3 = PAIN
... are sheep! Walking without a staff over mountains 1400 meters high for the past two days has taken its toll! When I arrived to Pamplona, I was in bad shape. I had been so excited to see the city after traveling there years ago, seeing it just after ...
No Bulls Yet But The Party Has Begun
... 's Sky Magazine listed as the number one group activity to see or participate in, you guessed it. Running With The Bulls in Pamplona, Spain! If I survive tonight's festivities, I will (might) face that challenge at 8:00 am tomorrow. For now, I am ...
San Fermin 2009
... San Fermin is like explaining Mozart to a deaf man. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw and experienced in Pamplona, Spain. Words cannot describe what I saw and experienced. San Fermin is the biggest festival in Spain held once a ...
Running of the Bulls
... The bus ride back was brutal. We were on a double decker bus on the top level. The temperature in Pamplona was about 30 degrees, the air conditioning didn't work and the windows didn't open, so the only fresh air we had was coming in from the hatch on the ...
Toros
... vacancy. Well the park looked as good as any to call it a night so we set up camp. Even though it was summer and we were in Spain, Pamplona is quite high in the mountains and it was around 12 degrees Celsius. We wrapped up in whatever we could. It ...

