This month we travel to the streets of Pamplona, to the capital of Spanish community Navarre. Pamplona is located in Northern Spain, not far away from Pyrenees and French border. It’s one of the first stops along Camino de Santiago after French border, but that’s not why this town is known world wide. It was actually Ernest Hemingway who made this town famous in 1926 by writing his novel The Sun also Rises and telling the world about this event which is hosted in this town every year from 6th of July until 14th of July – San Fermín Festival.
Last July I was travelling nearby and despite my doubts I decided to include the visit to this festival to my travel itinerary. Although I haven’t read Hemingway’s novel yet, I have read about the San Fermín Festival many times from the newspapers world wide. Most of the news I have read have been reporting how people have been seriously injured or died while running with the bulls in the streets of Pamplona. Although I like running a lot for sure I didn’t plan to participate in actual running. I was planning to mainly observe and document the event with my camera and get the better understanding what this celebration is all about. But as I didn’t do my homework before my trip I actually didn’t have any idea where I was putting my head into…
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