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San Fermin catches it's breath
Pamplona
,
Spain
Taken out by the Vaca
Pamplona
has finally settled into its groove, and San Fermin continues apace, but somehow not as franticly as it was the first couple days. Everybody knows they're in for the long haul, and they're pacing themselves a bit better now. Don't get me wrong, it's still basically insane, but at least people have stopped peeing on our front door.
Caught the encierro from inside the bull ring on Day 3. It's standing room only at 8am, as the fighting bulls are put away and they start releasing younger bulls into the ring to play with the crowd. These young bulls have their horns nominally padded to keep them from poking through anybody, but they are still capable of tossing anybody that strays too close (or doesn't run fast enough).
It's a pretty simple game, really:
1. See how close you can get to the Rampaging Bull
2. Attract the attention of the Rampaging Bull to impress your friends.
3. Land.
4. Try to get up and escape before the Rampaging Bull tosses you again.
5. See how far you can remain from the Rampaging Bull.
The nice thing about Sanfermines mid-week is that you can walk around in the daylight and not be immediately doused with gallons of Kalimotxo. You may get smacked in the head by some guy in a big mask, but for them most part it's a pretty family friendly time. After the fireworks are finished at night, the place transforms back into party mode and you'd best just roll with it. We had 3 separate marching bands colliding under our window at 3:00 this morning. It's probably best if you don't plan to sleep much this week...
written by
Jason Kester
on July 12, 2007
from
Pamplona
,
Spain
from the travel blog:
Living in Spain
tagged
SanFermin
,
Fiesta
and
Encierro
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