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The next stop on our trip was the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain. Probably better known as the Running of the Bulls. Basically this is a 9 day festival with bull fights, firework displays, live bands and all night general partying throughout the city. Most importantly there is a bull run everyday at 8am. The bull run takes place primarily to move the bulls to the bull ring for the afternoon fight. The ´running´ part came about many years ago when one crazy dude decided to actually run the route with the bulls. Today hundreds of crazy people follow his example. Andy, Stef and I were them crazy people on the first day - along with lots of Aussie´s from our campsite. We were slightly disturbed by the naming of some parts of the course; such as ´Dead mans corner´ and ´Death tunnel´. As it happened we needn´t have cared - as soon as the rocket indicating the release of the bulls was fired we were off, and actually beat the bulls into the ring. Unfortunately one person did die today during this run, at ´Dead mans corner´. However he was the first in over a decade.
On our last day at the festival we hired a balcony above ´Dead mans corner´ to watch the run (Video is on Facebook). The bulls certainly look less scary from above :-) We spent our last evening watching the fireworks from Pamplona´s main park, before driving to Barcelona with a new passenger in tow - an Aussie named Luke...
