Fiesta: The Sun Also Shines

The latest read is as the titles says "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises" by Hemmingway. This is a really great book. Basically follows a group of writers and artists in Paris in around the 1920s. They decide to go down to Spain, to Pampalona, for the Bullfighting and week long festival called the fiesta. The book is very evocative of the times and the locations. You really just want to get on a plane and hang out in rural Spain. Away from the resorts. Even though during the course of the festival the town is over run by tourists the narrator is an aficionadoo, there is a great explanation in the book of this term. The general sentiment of the book is that although we may think our generation parties the hardest and makes new breakthroughs in debauchery, basically its all been done before, and when drink too much they become drunks which is a particularly sobering thing in any age.

Of course Pamplona is famous for the tradition of allowing the bulls run through the streets to teh bullring, as seen in the pictures.