June 5, 2016
Pamplona and the surrounding green hills are so much more than the annual bull runs. Look, I LOVE (intensely) the annual fiesta and the running of the bulls. It's what brought me to the city originally. However, Pamplona and the Kingdom of Navarra do a poor job (may...
May 8, 2016
It is an oft repeated joke by first time runners: "All I have to do is outrun the guy next to me." Stated with a "aren't I so witty" smirk usually, first time runners usually believe this to be true, and usually believe they came up with this smart rejoinder. Howeve...
May 5, 2016
It started on 1/1 and moved to 2/2 and 3/3, and so on.
Today is 5/5, but it is not that Cinco de Mayo to me.
Next is 6/6, and then the big one: 7/7 and the bulls.
On 7/6/2016, Ari, Samuel and I will be down in front with Jack and Craig and Devon a...
January 7, 2016
Novice runners frequently repeat the following misconception -- "the bulls will run to the inside of the turn," or "the bulls will run to the outside of the turn." This is folly. There are various turns (some dramatic; some listingly) in the Pamplona bull running cou...
January 4, 2016
This past fiesta Ari and I made a new friend in Pamplona -- Candice. It was her first fiesta, but after only a few moments, we could tell she "got it." We meet hundreds of people every summer, and we can usually guess who will have no choice but to return annually....
January 2, 2016
As midnight struck on the east coast of the United States, Ari and I shared the secret fiesta handshake and began mapping out our 2016 fiesta, which will be our thirteenth together. Annually, on January 1, the countdown to return to Spain officially starts, as outline...
October 19, 2015
That is a fiesta smile.
Famed fiesta stalwart Tim Pinks wrote a tribute and review of BBB which landed on sanfermin.com, which is my favorite website in the universe! Go to their webite and buy their stuff, please. I check it daily for fiesta related news.
Tim is an...
October 13, 2015
From the date of publication in July 2015, my excellent team at St. Martin's Press has run down many excellent media opportunities for me to promote Bulls Before Breakfast in the United States and Europe. These resulted in several marvelous and compimentary blurbs, i...
June 29, 2015
Big write up on Bulls Before Breakfast in Sunday morning NY Post today. Wow. Had no idea! Very exciting day.
http://nypost.com/2015/06/28/the-pain-in-spain-inside-the-running-of-the-bulls/
June 27, 2015
My excellent team at St. Martin's Press chased down an opportunity for me to write an article for the Matador Network.
Here's the link: http://matadornetwork.com/trips/12-things-didnt-know-running-bulls/