First of all, we want Benji Lanyado’s job. The Guaradian travel writer is making his way around European cities doing nothing but following the advice of anonymous readers’ tweets. It’s the ultimate in passive aggressive travel. So far, on all of Lanyado’s previous TwiTrips, we haven’t been able to determine if Lanyado has been...
Yes, we’ve all critiqued hotel rooms, and some of them are dumps, but there is a new hotel in Madrid, Spain that is made from all the garbage we’ve managed to dump into the ocean. Built by German sculptor H.A. Shult, the hotel is his way of bringing attention to all the crap floating...
The planes in Spain are going to remain on the ground — from August 18 to 21. Spanish air traffic controllers plan to go on strike during those three days, which could affect up to 2 million passengers around Europe, according to media reports. A few smaller strikes have disrupted flights around Spain, once...
It’s official: Barcelona has become a Bull Sanctuary, kind of. The Catalonia Region — similar to a US State, but different — has voted to ban bullfighting. No more picadors, no more matadors, just vegetables for the orphans. The move, which animal rights activists will applaud, was not really designed for them. No, saving...
The last day of the Pamplona, Spain, Bull Run ended up to be the most injury filled day out of the event. For the past week and a half, drunken men — and it seems to be almost exclusively men — have lined up along a cobble stone street and waited for 12 bulls...
Day 7 of the bull run in Pamplona, Spain, has already ended and yet another person had the horn of one of the 12 bulls pierce his skin — this is known as being gored. Goring is not fun, according to people who have had it happened to them. But that was the only...
Day four went a little easier on those stupid brave enough to run with the bulls. According to media reports, five more people where hurt but no one had a horn stuck their chest, thigh or neck, which occurred during the first three days of drunken people running a 850 meter road with 12...
Day 3: And the casualties are mounting. One man was gored in the thigh and six more were seriously injured during the third of nine days of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, according to media reports. It was the highest injury total for a single day so far. That brings the...
Here’s a joke to start out the day. An Irishman and a Spainard walk onto the a street. A bull gores them. After the second bull run of 2010 in Pamplona, Spain, the bulls now have a running total of eight people injured enough to visit the hospital. Thursday, two men were gored and...
Run as fast as you can, and maybe, just maybe, nobody gets hurt. Who are we kidding? Somebody is going to get hurt in Pamplona, Spain — they always do this time of the year. For the next nine days, casualties are going to start mounting. This morning at 8 a.m., two people were...
