Hotel Mendebaldea Pamplona

Un día cualquiera en la oficina. Suena mi móvil y recibo un mensaje que dice "La selección para la beca en China ha sido resulta. Has sido seleccionado final, enhorabuena! Consulta tu mail". La respiración se me corto y volví a leer el mensaje. Era una noticia que esperaba desde hacía mucho tiempo con la misma ilusión que esperas la nota de selectividad, o la contratación a un puesto de trabajo que quieres. Y la verdad que me sent ...

... and camembert cheese and a bottle of Diet Coke with Cappuccino flavouring..weird sounding I know but it was a cross between vanilla and slight coffee flavor and pretty good! We bought some more what we think is cordial "Syrup sans sucre " in Forrest Berry flavour and had a wander down to the beach lane shops. I bought a silver necklace for $7 Euro as I was keen to start wearing my cartouche and scarab beetle and we ran to the bus for pickup. I put on my necklace ...

... doll representing an African king).<br><br>After about a half an hour, we had our fill of the giant dolls and set off to find some shade and a place to sit. As we entered the main town square, the sight was almost comical: every inch of shade was occupied by someone (in the grass under trees, under awnings, even under benches!).<br><br>We finally found three chairs under an awning and decided to stay for a while and people watch. A while turned into 4 ...

... I don´t understand in Spanish. I think she is just really lonely and wants someone to talk too. Poor granny!!<br><br>Bull Run: The running is a really big deal here. All the balconies are filled with people, police, EMT´s everywhere, and cameras rigged on high-wires to catch the drama unfold. The way the Running of the Bulls works is, they have 12 bulls in a pen on one end of the stretch and then at 8 am they open the door and let off a firework to ...

This stage has no difficulties, the landscapes begin to change, we left the woods behind us and we begin to see beatiful fields til we reach our destination.<br><br>In Los Arcos I don't recommend the main refuge... when we were there we saw lots of bugs, an unpleasant smell, a small kitchen... the village is not very impressive but the main church (worth to see)<br>

We'll remember this stage for the amount of mud we accumulated in our legs. It was an awkward day, at least this stage was pretty easy but the beginning (a huge climb with a lot of mud).<br><br>We founded the main refuge in Estella newly renovated, clean, with all the facilities... a nice place where we met people from Italy, Germany and New Zealand , we decided to cook together a huge tipical spanish omelet!!! We also took a walk around beatiful Estella despite of the pain in our legs!<br>

... moved to Pamplona (18 years ago) and now have a daughter Aine (11), and last year adopted a Brazilian boy, Gibrair (10). Vivian was also married in Argentina and migrated to Spain when her son Ennio (now 10) was a baby. A few years ago she divorced her husband and is now married to Sebastián and now they have a son, Orión (1). Vivian, Sebastián, Ennio, Orión, Marcelo and Aine went to the bus station to meet me, but the first four left after about 10 minutes and the remaining ...

... heading off to more festivities. We heard of a Wailers (i.e. Bob Marley and the Wailers) concert that was being held near a carnival area. We meandered out way over, had some fun at the carnival, and found our way to the front of the concert area. The concert had such great spirits with it and was a lot of fun with a collaboration of people from all over. The "replacement" Bob Marley was great as well...one guy around me didn't even know Bob Marley was black...what?? The ...

AYOYE!!!!! jai jamais vu ca du monde fous de meme... comment je peux faire pour commencer??? ok odorat: imaginer un melange de beer, vomis, poubelle, crote de boeuf et de sueur. ok imaginer genre chaque rue du vieux port remplis de gens a craquer, metter quasiment autant de bar que de monde, de la musique et metter une course de tauraux le matin!!! ok ca cest un aprecu de ce que vou pourriez imaginer. ok je commence ma ptite journee a biarritz pour ...

... Canada, well he is too!! so we get to chatting and next thing I know I am sitting with two Canadians, a Brit, a Fin, an Italian, and a Kiwi for good measure. Well needless to say turns out I am running home at 5 am to get to my hotel to pack up to come to Pamplona with the Canadian who turns out (and I knew this from the night before, especially when people were giving me their condolences) to be the biggest KNOB! He is a complete idiot and ditched him as soon as I got ...