| Imagine being chased by a group of panicking bulls | | | | several activities. There will be parades. The Spain |
| through the narrow streets of a town. These bulls | | | | flag will be flapping in the wind. There will be |
| are very confused; some of them may be afraid, | | | | dancing, singing, a lot of merrymaking. But the |
| and some are quite angry. There are hundreds of | | | | most anticipated activity is the Running of the |
| you on the street. A "running mate" of yours lets | | | | Bulls. Every morning for 7 days, several bulls are |
| out a yelp every now and then. You, however, | | | | let loose on the town streets. Now, the streets |
| are too busy running for your life to look back | | | | the bulls are supposed to take are already lined |
| and find out if he is yelping in pain or yelping for | | | | with fences so that no bull strays away from the |
| joy. | | | | path. People run ahead of the bulls when they are |
| Now, do this every year, invite everyone from all | | | | let loose. Along the path, the fences or the corrals |
| over the globe, and call it a festival. In Spain, they | | | | have several gaps so that the human runners |
| call it the Running of the Bulls. Several towns in | | | | may take refuge or get out of the race when |
| Spain and other European countries hold this kind | | | | the going gets too tough for them. |
| of activity each year, but the most famous is the | | | | Participants are sometimes hurt, even killed, by |
| one held in Pamplona, Spain. Each year, the people | | | | the bulls or by the other runners in the Running of |
| of Pamplona, Spain honor their patron saint San | | | | the Bull activity, yet year after year visitors flock |
| Fermin by holding a festival in his name for seven | | | | to Pamplona, Spain to experience this very |
| days: from July 7th to 14th. There are, of course, | | | | physical celebration. |