Old Town Pamplona

Before Alicia left, she took me, her friend Erin, her mom and dad and the kids down into Old Town Pamplona. We saw where the bullfights take place, the path along which the bulls run and the old city walls. Mostly, I just want to share pictures of this, so I´ll post them below and explain them with numbers here. 1) This is Alicia, the kids and her dad in front of the bull fighting arena where the run ends and the goring begins. 2) Alicia´s mom and dad in front of the count down to the next San Fermin (the week long festival that has the running of the bulls). I´ve heard the whole city comes alive and goes crazy, I can´t wait. I´ll have to miss part of it for Katie and Kev´s wedding, but that´s ok I think : ). 3) Sorry, this one´s a little dark. This is one of the streets the bulls run down. So skinny! 4) Me in the Plaza de Castillo. It´s amazing! As you walk down the tiny streets, suddenly they part onto this huge open space. I heard it used to be covered in trees as well. They broadcast all the festivities of San Fermin here on a large screen they bring in. 5) This is where San Fermin begins. The mayor comes out and puts on his red scarf and belt and there´s a huge crowd down below doing the same. They sing a little ditty and the festivities start. 6) I´m not sure if these guys were a soccer team or just fans, but they were walking through old town singing and holding flags and just being merry. In the pic with them, is a nun we met in a tiny plaza as the soccer guys walked by. She told Aliciaá mom that she´d pray for her for the rest of her life. Wow. And that´s all I can fit in one blog. We also sat at a coffee shop on top of the city walls, very fun.