Orion Plaza

... 8 am with the letting off of a firecracker to announce the release of the bulls from their corral and concludes at Pamplona's Plaza de Toros (bullfighting ring) where the bulls will then be used for bull fights. Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also ...

... only shops, selling goods that are not available, even at a price, to the local population. We enter a large square, the 'Plaza de la Catedral', where a magnificent, old, stone church dominates one end. Slowly circling to return to the hotel we are met by ...

... tree-lined avenues, fountains, music...it was so quiet and perfect for a getaway weekend. We kept walking past the Plaza Independencia where we encountered a giant neon representation of the Argentinean seal (a bit tacky if I do say so myself) highlighted ...

... we made the right choice there.) We walked back in the dark. The guards were a bit confused, as we were the only ones out and about. But the stars were gorgeous; Orion, so clear; Betelguese. Venus. And perhaps Jupiter. Lovely. So happy. So relaxed.

... sitting on the floor of the terrace, due to the continuing lack of chairs, and staring up at the darkening night sky. To our surprise, the Orion constellation was riding high in the sky, a familiar sight in a foreign land. Salud, N&E