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Low life

In my opinion, Death Corner was a very safe place to stand

But Sharon, who had been leaping from one man to the next like a chamois, was arrested

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

Watching the daily running of the bulls through Pamplona’s narrow streets online this week has given me a wistful pang about not being there again. I once went to Pamplona’s feria three times in four years and ran with the bulls every morning. One year I took Sharon. The day we arrived, she took one look at the streets pullulating with thousands of handsome, drunk young men and did the psychical equivalent of a graceful swallow dive into their midst.

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