07-09-2007, 07:20 PM
Arpikarhu Wrote:i think its all bullshit. first the sharks and now this? all lies.
Nope. All true. I left on the 22nd, and just got back to my apartment.
I went to Moscow (amazing for history, and even better for insanely hot chicks - too bad nobody spoke a lick of english; I came nowhere close to even touching one of the girls there), follwed by St. Petersburg (kind of lame and has London's shitty weather), then Amsterdam (shrooms are so much better than pot and beer it's not even funny), then Madrid (kind of boring - but I wasn't there on a weekend: though I really like how everyone eats outside, and I dig the whole afternoon siesta deal - just don't go into a strip club - it's a whorehouse), and finished up in Pamplona. Did the run yesterday after having a blacony for the first run on Saturday (though I jumped in the run accidentally at the end - not realizing there was still a bull to come).
Pamplona is the worst place on earth. The San Fermin festival turns it into a warzone. 2-3x the population (and about 50-100x the bar/restaurant population) so there is no capacity, every restaurant is overflowing, people are sleeping in the streets, pissing everywhere. It's like living in the 1300s. The smell is putrid. All of my clothes (even the ones that aren't dirty) smell like Pamplona, and need to be washed. It's just hell on earth.
And I was honestly more scared during the opening kickoff (Chupinazo) in town square than I was during the bull run. I knew that everyone threw sangria and flower and eggs and stuff. But I didn't know that everyone brings bottles of champagne and beer bottles and smashes them on the ground, so the entire town centre is covered in shards of glass, and then the crowd starts to act like a mosh pit and move like 20-30 feet at a time. There were numerous tramplings, and once you go down it's very difficult to get up (and did I mention that the street is covered in broken glass). I also saw numerous girls getting molested/borderline raped by the filthy spics during the Chupinazo. Just horrible horrible.
But the bull run was pretty cool. Though bullfighting is the biggest pussy "sport" in the world. The vaunted matadors don't even step in the ring with the bull until after the bull is 90% dead after having been speared at least 10 times by guys on armored horses, and other teams of people. And it's not even a "sport" since there is no chance for the bull to win. NO matter how strong he is, or how fast, or how many people he gores in the ring, he is dead. Bullshit. It's also insanely repetitive and boring.