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La Tomatina
... could film me. If I ever find that clip on YouTube, you can be sure I´ll post it.
At the end of the festival, I dug tomatoes out of my ears as firemen came and sprayed the buildings down with high-powered hoses, slowly trying to erase the 240,000 pounds of tomatoes that stained their city despite the huge tarps covering storefronts and buildings. I stood in front of a hose and allowed myself to be sprayed down the street.
I wish you could have ...
These Tomatoes, They Burn My Eyes
... let's start this party early. We make our way back to the car, grab our passports, credit cars, all the important stuff and bring it to a public lock to store it for the night. At least our personal **** is safe, the car on the otherhand, well, who cares. That's what insurance is for.
On the way we meet a couple of British lads who got a two day pass from their wives to join in on the chaos. We tell them we are started things early and they decide to join us. So there we are ...
Toma Crazy Tina
... Damian was out for the count on the street, but Parkes, the two UK guys and I kept going strong. The sun broke, and only the strong survived, the streets were littered with empty beer glasses and cans, cigarette butts and passed out people. City workers came through and swept up the place spotless before the festivities began.
I never planned on fighting for the ham due to the sheer crazyness of it and a rib injury suffered in Lisbon, but after ...
La Tomatina!!!
... we were fair game for tomatoes and water. The streets in Spain are pretty much always lined with apartments. Some of the people that live in those apartments participate in the Tomatina by throwing tomatoes into the crowd, pouring buckets of water on them, or spraying them with a hose. Luckily that day it wasn't very hot, but the water still felt really good. We slowly worked our way through the crowd, until we ...
La Tomatina
... swimming in the tomatoes others were smashing others with the soft fruit!
I took a lot to the face and realised how disgusting it all actually was! The smell of it was the worst and then there was the salty taste – ewww its making me cringe just writing about it! Was great fun though, im not sure if Ive ever had permission to throw my food around like we did! I wish my brother had have been there and then we could have had the food fight we've always wanted!
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