When: July 1995
How Long: 1 Week
Background: When I was studying in France, a group of us went down for the Running of the Bulls (known there as the Festival of San Fermin) in Pamplona. We stayed in a nearby village called San Sebastian along the coast which has the most beautiful beach I ever saw. For the running, we took a bus up to Pamplona and for a couple days. Out of the 20 of us who came to the festival on myself and another guy did the running of the bulls.
A clip from the local newspaper: The bullfighting ring that the Running emptied into on the day I ran it. See me? |
Some of the gang I went to Pamplona with. Note white T-shirts so the blood stands out better |
About 4AM Trent tries a drunken cartwheel |
All hostels were full so we slept in the open.... |
Start of the Running, note the bulls are bigger than people... |
You can see how close the bulls got. The arrows point to me in this picture from the newspaper |
Here is where the bulls and us runners emptied into, a stadium where the bulls ran around for 20 minutes hitting people. |
Here is me overlooking the City of San Sebastian, which was the most beautiful in Europe in my opinion |
