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: running of the bulls
The Dangerous Summer: Editor’s article In The Telegraph
My article on the extraordinary fatality rate in the encierros, ‘bull-runs’, and other ‘popular’ taurine events this year, and why we continue to participate in them, is in The Telegraph today (online here.) A more detailed breakdown of the figures … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alexander, bull, bull-runner, bull-running, bull-runs, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, bullrun, bullrunner, bullrunning, bulls, castile, castile y leon, castille, castille and leon, corrida, cuellar, daily telegraph, Dangerous Summer, death, died, encierros, enrique bayon, feria, fiesta, fiske-harrison, gored, hemingway, killed, larry belcher, manuel escribano, matador, old castille, pamplona, pastor, running bulls, running of the bulls, running with bulls, spain, telegraph, telegraph me, telegraph men, the telegraph, torero, toros, toros bravos, xander
Leave a comment
San Fermín Roundup
Our editor, who is on holiday, has asked me to step into the breech to do a little roundup on the years events in Pamplona to accompany Joseph S. Furey’s “excellent” article in the Daily Telegraph magazine today. (We suspect … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alexander, allen carney, article on pamplona, ayuntiamento, book, British Bullfighter, British Matador, bull-fight, bull-fighter, bull-run, bull-runner, bull-running, bullfight, bullfighter, bullrunner, bullrunning, bulls, Chicago Tribune, corredor, corredor de toros, corrida, craig macpherson, daily telegraph, data, deathwish, dennis clancey, diario de navarra, ebook, eguide, encierro, English Bullfighter, English Matador, EPA, ernest hemingway, facts, fastest, fastest bull-run, fastest bullrun, fastest encierro, fines, fiske-harrison, gored, gored by bull, goring, gorings, guidebook, hemingway, herdsmen, hospital, how to run, how to run the bulls, how to survive the bulls, information, injuries, into the arena, iruna, Jim Hollander, joe distler, john hemingway, Jokin Zuasti, joseph furey, joseph s furey, Julen Madina, last arena, magazine, matador, matt carney, mayor, mayor of pamplona, miura, mozo, multas, navarra, Navarre, number of people, numbers, official guide, pamplona, pamplona article. article, Pamplona Post, pastor, pastores, people, Plaza de Toros, roundup, runners, running, running bulls, running of the bulls, running with bulls, running with the bulls, spain, spanish, statistics, stats, surviving pamplona, surviving the bulls, telegraph, telegraph magazine, toreador, torero, toros, toros bravos, Why running with the bulls is more than a deathwish, wounds, xander
Leave a comment
A close call in Pamplona
This morning was the bloodiest so far I this year’s Feria de San Fermín. With five people gored including one American according to Navarran authorities. Our friend Dennis Clancey came close to making it six (and two) as you can … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bull-runner, bull-running, dennis clancey, fiesta, pamplona, running of the bulls, san fermin
Leave a comment
Pamplona, bull running, bull gorings, Esquire TV and poetry from New York
The Fiesta so far has been one of moments of glory and moments of hilarity, all among old strangers and new friends. The star of the show has been the American bull-runner Dennis Clancey, formerly of 20th Special Forces Group … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 20th special forces group, book, British Bullfighter, British Matador, bull, bull-fight, bull-fighter, bull-run, bull-runner, bull-running, bullfight, bullfighter, bullrunner, bullrunning, bulls, corredor, corredor de toros, corrida, cristen hemingway jaynes, dennis clancey, ebook, eguide, encierro, English Bullfighter, English Matador, EPA, ernest hemingway, esquire tv, feria, fiesta, fighting bulls, gored, gored by bull, goring, guidebook, hemingway, how to run, how to run the bulls, how to survive the bulls, iruna, Jim Hollander, joe distler, john hemingway, Jokin Zuasti, José Tomás, Josechu Lopez, Julen Madina, matador, mayor, mayor of pamplona, Miguel Angel Eguiluz, mozo, navarra, Navarre, nicolas haro, official guide, orson welles, pamplona, Plaza de Toros, runners, running, running bulls, running of the bulls, running with bulls, running with the bulls, san fermin, sanfermin, sanferminero, sanfermines, spain, spanish, surviving pamplona, surviving the bulls, toreador, torero, toro, toro bravo
3 Comments
Running on the horns of the bull
I just found a photo which when cropped down I discovered the exact moment I was truly bullrunning, in the mozo-sense, on the horns of the bull, rather than posing alongside, after the horns have passed. I remember the adrenaline-spike, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alexander fiske-harrison, British Bullfighter, British Matador, bull-running, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, bullrunning, corrida, encierro, English Bullfighter, English Matador, ernest hemingway, fiske-harrison, hemingway, into the arena, iruna, pamplona, pamplona 2011, running of the bulls, running the bulls, san fermin, san fermin 2011, spain, the world of the spanish bullfight, toreador, torero, toro, toro bravo
2 Comments
Untouchable – A Clean Running Of The Bulls in San Fermín
That’s what the headline on the cover of the Navarre daily, Diario de Noticias, said after the first day of running in Pamplona said – my best day by far. I didn’t leave the city entirely untouched, emotionally or physically, … Continue reading
Into The Arena
… is both the name of my book – available on Amazon here – and what I did yesterday. Here are some photos of my dancing with the young bulls they let in after the run (which I also ran). … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alexander fiske-harrison, British Bullfighter, bull-running, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, bullrunning, corrida, fiske-harrison, into the arena, pamplona, pamplona 2011, running of the bulls, running the bulls, the world of the spanish bullfight
Leave a comment
The Pamplona Posse
Having arrived in Pamplona by way of both Barcelona and Madrid (missed connection, but not all airlines are bastards. Thank you Iberia), I have joined the “Pamplona Posse”, a rag tag group of gap-year students, ne’er-do-wells and bullrunning maniacs at … Continue reading
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
