Cross Elorz Hotel Pamplona

... by our tour guide Calvin. The temperature was warm..Biarritz was 23 degrees, Pamplona was 37 on our tour! So after bullfighting things we then walked to the main square down the main street of the Bull run, with suitable merchandising shops. The main square is lovely and the historical significance of the Bull run is interesting. After this we all headed to the oldest bar in Pamplona for Tapas and Sangria. The Sangria was THE BEST I'd ever had.. so nice. The ...

... it is them not me. ¨America¨ as some concept that I am somewhat loosely associated with... that is not how it works here. Many people have so many questions, criticism and false perceptions. I am from the United States, and I am thinking more about what that means...

Great fun with the group tonight... much laughter at the very bizarre Italian religious youth group. One boy is lugging a full guitar along their partial camino, and is very nondiscerning about ...

... typical 10 pm curfew), and I struggled with feeling jealous and disappointed, and wondering what this meant... should i have tried harder to stay with the group? was this just pure luck? Regardless, i hope to run into some town festivals along the way at some point, as they seem amazing.

Met a boy from south korea who told me he recognized what ¨Penn¨ was from the tshirt i sleep in!! He said he was impressed I went to such a great school, and i hate that I loved to hear that.

... Thus, strangers seem to almost immediately jump into asking each other questions that to an outsider would seem intrusive. It is sometimes hard with the language differences, as i feel unable to fully express myself to someone who is not fluent in English. For the other person, it is undoubtably worse, as speaking in a foreign language is exhausting and it is likewise frustrating attempting to express yourself. Despite this, I felt my conversation ...

... a bit about the history of the Catalonian government and visited some of the buildings, including the Generalitat (wondering why that word doesn’t sound Spanish? It’s because the word isn’t! It’s Catalá!) and the Ajuntament (also Catalá). We walked around the city and proceeded to the Parc de la Ciutadella, the former home of a military base that has since been converted into a large public park with a zoo. No giraffes for me that ...

... started to show up to watch from the balcony. I must say, I think that balcony is one of the best for the festival. You can see all the way down the longest street of the run and you can see Dead Man´s Corner. The corner that bulls like to slip and slide into the wall and crush any idiot in their way. At about 7:30 I saw tons of people in the street below us preparing to run. I debated internally for a few minutes and I said "screw it!" I´m only here ...

... his voice, and then promise him that we could talk later! After church everyone (including Moira's parents - Héctor and Nora, who live in a flat below) gathered for lunch at Moira and Marcelo's house. It was nice to sit and talk with family, and a nice Argentinian cultural outlet to all the Catalán and Spanish Castellano I'd been subjected to during the month! Lunch was a typically lazy Hispanic Sabbath lunch, and lasted a couple of hours. After lunch we realised that there'd ...

... but found some new guys to run with. The police patrol through the packs from 6-7:30 picking out people that aren't 'fit' to run (i.e. women, drunk people (MANY), overweight people, people with cameras, etc.) and they kick them out of the fenced area. Three of the guys I was with were pulled out for having cameras; the idea is that if you're trying to take pictures while running...you're not paying attention to running and therefore a danger to yourself. The plaza isn't very ...

... voir la policia nous a expulser de facon assez brutale mais cest quun debut, on pensait quil nous obligais a courir avec les tauraux, mais ils nous ont pousser dans une ruelle avec leur baton de police... mais pour je ne sais pas pour quelle raison quelquun a lancer une bouteille de vitre a la police et ensuite un autre, et un autre et voila pris entre deux clan qui sen voulais pas mal, cetait vraiment dangereux quelque personne ce sont faite battre par ...

... after about a minute or so; there is a madrush of people running for there lives. however there is one characteristic of the bull run that i found absolutely crazy, once the bulls run by the audience or the people; there is a huge moment of silence, and you can hear these bulls trample by, you can even hear them breath. on the day i saw the run from the balcony; there were no fatalities; in fact there were none for the days i was there ...