Tapas in Pamplona 2025

Tapas in Pamplona 2025

Here in the north of Spain, we don’t say tapas, we say Pinchos. But it is the same thing. There are too many bars in Pamplona to try all the tapas in town, so here is a selection of my favorite ones. This is a post for 2019, so if you read it later, things might have...
July 14th, Last day in San Fermin

July 14th, Last day in San Fermin

It is July 14th, it is the last day of the fiestas!!! Nine days of none stop party, come to an end. Today will live the last running of the bulls, we will cry with the last dance of the giants, we will eat our last tapa at ZANPA or GAUCHO, and we will say goodbye to...
Saint Fermín

Saint Fermín

SAINT FERMIN   We are in Pamplona celebrating the live and death of Saint Fermin. Who on earth was Saint Fermin or Sanfermín? Let´s go back in time….. The first time we hear about Pamplona was in the 1st century before Christ, when Roman General Ponpey....
Toro de Osborne

Toro de Osborne

All around Spain you will find this big billboards with the shape of a bull. They are “El toro de Osborne”. One of Spains big symbols. Probably one of my first child memories could be driving from Pamplona to the Mediterranean. Back then it was about an 8 hours drive....
There is a reason why we eat sooooo late!!!I

There is a reason why we eat sooooo late!!!I

If this is your first time to Spain, be prepared to eat late, very late.     Our normal starting  eating hours are from 13:30 until 15:00. In my case, I wait for my wife to return from work, so we eat at 15;45. That is lunch, but for dinner you will not find...