The Official Guide Book to Pamplona
World’s No.1 Bullfight Blog
Click on image for link
World’s No.1 Bullfight Book
"Essential reading" The Times, "Best reads" The Telegraph, "Compelling. Lyrical." The Mail, "Thrillng." Financial Times, "Breathtaking” The Herald, “Intoxicating." The Australian, “Deeply felt." The Prague Post, Shortlisted for: William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2011, The 'Bookie' Prize
Tag Archives: Ordóñez
Filming Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez in Ronda
These are some photos of our filming in Ronda for our documentary. Since they are from my iPhone and my (Mephisto Productions’) Production Assistant’s Blackberry, they are not of the usual quality. The director and I pick up our English cameraman … Continue reading
The Post goes to Ronda…
The Pamplona Post will be spending the weekend in Ronda at the Feria de Pedro Romero with the great-grandson of its founder, the matador Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez. His ancestor, the matador Cayetano Ordóñez, arranged the first fair – and its … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alexander fiske-harrison, Antonio Ordóñez, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, Cayetano, Cayetano Ordóñez, Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez, Citizen Kane, corrida, corrida goyesca, ernest hemingway, fiesta, fiske-harrison, Francisco Goya, hemingway, into the arena, modern matador, Ordóñez, orson welles, Pamplona Post, Pedro Romero, Ronda, the dangerous summer, the sun also rises, the world of the spanish bullfight
Leave a comment
The Dangerous Summer begins…
PAMPLONA is no place to bring your wife. The odds are all in favor of her getting ill, hurt or wounded or at least jostled and wine squirted over her, or of losing her; maybe all three. If anybody could … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 50th anniversary, alexander fiske-harrison, Antonio Ordóñez, bull-running, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, bullrunning, cano, corrida, Dangerous Summer, Dominguin, ernest hemingway, fiske-harrison, hemingway, hemingway 50, hemingway's death, into the arena, Life, Life magazine, Navarre, Ordóñez, orson welles, Paco Cano, pamplona, running of the bulls, san fermin, the world of the spanish bullfight, welles
Leave a comment
Ernest Hemingway, 50 years on, and the family Ordóñez
On the 50th anniversary of the death of the great Ernest Hemingway – who was packing for Pamplona at the time just as I am now – it seems right to reprint an excerpt from my recent book Into The Arena, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 50th, 50th anniversary hemingway, alexander fiske-harrison, Antonio Ordóñez, Ava Gardner, British Bullfighter, British Matador, bull-running, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, bullrunning, Cayetano Rivera, corrida, death in the afternoon, Dominguin, English Bullfighter, ernest hemingway, feria del toro, fiesta, fiske-harrison, Frank Sinatra, hemingway 50, hemingway's death, hemingway's suicide, into the arena, Life magazine, Luis Miguel Dominguin, Ordóñez, pamplona, Rivera Ordóñez, running of the bulls, running the bulls, san fermin, san fermin 2011, san fermin 320, Sinatra, spain, sunday times, the dangerous summer, the sun also rises, the world of the spanish bullfight, toreador, torero
Leave a comment
