Just Warming Up

The Fiesta de San Fermin is fast approaching -- July 6-14, along with the fabled "Running of the Bulls". (You can read my previous post on this subject here.)

Just to get you in the mood for this traditional Spanish sport, here are scenes from a bullfight in Madrid earlier this week, featuring the great matador, Julio Arpicio.

The matador.

The Bull.

The dance.

The slip.

The contact.

The follow-through.

(Yes, the bull's horn has pierced Arpicio's chin

and is protruding through his mouth.)

Arpicio lives to fight another day.

(The bull doesn't.)

And now you see why people love this sport!