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...They always are surprised. They go, ‘It’s still here, nothing else is the same, but this is still here,’” says David H. Brennan, who has been coming to Pamplona since the 1970s...
...Hugo, from Sacramento, California, on the train from northern Spain to Madrid. Like me and other travelers from around the world, he had been in Pamplona for the festival of Sanfermines, a weeklong party which takes place every June and is highlighted by the daily running of the bulls through the town’s old streets. But unlike most of the travelers headed home on that train, Hugo was horribly scraped up and was still bleeding from a gash in his head. Although he was originally planning not to run with the bulls, he had gotten drunk and been...
...wonderful luck to spend six weeks working in Madrid this summer, and while I learned a great deal about the Spanish culture, I also gained some valuable insights about America. All of my Spanish friends and coworkers had warned me specifically not to run in Pamplona. They reminded me that every year one or two Americans are killed and countless others are maimed, because they abuse alcohol and then take deadly risks...
...relief. Hemingway made you feel like a lazy chump for missing out on the running of the bulls in Pamplona, but the new breed of travel books gives you the oxymoronic pleasure of being both over there and back here at the same time. As Alain de Botton puts it in The Art of Travel (Pantheon; 272 pages), "We may best be able to inhabit a place when we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there." As travel books go, The Art of Travel is on the unconventional side. It isn't about traveling anywhere...
According to Marks, Fuchs was the “mellow” type who eschewed the partying scene, but often spent time with friends drinking espresso at Café Pamplona on Bow Street...