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| Cafe Iruna, a favorite hangout |
Would you like to see a photo of me with every statue/bronze bust of
Ernest Hemingway in Pamplona? Oh. Well, here goes anyway! Ha!
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| Hemingway's room, just above ours overlooking Estafeta Street |
Pamplona, a larger-than-we-envisioned city in the Navarre region of northeastern Spain, burst onto the international scene in about 1926 because of an American author who wrote a novel based on characters and experiences that took place here in this town during the Running of the Bulls. The Festival of San Fermin had been taking place for hundreds of years, but after Ernest Hemingway published
The Sun Also Rises (aka
Fiesta! in Espanol), the world tuned in.
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| At the bullring |
I’m fascinated by Mr. Hemingway’s work, and never tire of information that makes him come alive. To be able to walk the route that the bulls run, to be able to stay in the same hotel, eat in the same bar in this Spanish city, was pretty special for me. My sister indulged me. And, blessedly, through all the excitement of being here, and with a sensitivity and respect for cultural
tradition, we were ever mindful of the senseless cruelty and brutality of
bullfighting.
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| The Running of the Bulls monument in Pamplona |
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| Adios, Pamplona! |
