title: Bulls Before Breakfast: Running with the Bulls and Celebrating Fiesta de San Fermn in Pamplona, Spain
author:  Peter N. Milligan 
description: Waggishly smart. <strong><em>The Telegraph<br /><br /></em></strong>A wonderful book that makes you want to go to Pamplona. <em><strong>Frommers.com</strong></em><br /><br />Readers will be inspired. <em><strong>NPR <br /><br /></strong></em>Milligan is an expert. <strong><em>CNN<br /><br /></em></strong>Dive into...terrifying true stories about the running of the bulls. <strong><em>Travel+Leisure<br /><br /></em></strong>Milligan projects a sense of grandeur onto the event. . . . A colorful portrait of Pamplona. <strong><em>Chicago Tribune<br /><br /></em></strong>A thoroughly engaging look at the celebration itself, its long history, and the ongoing controversy that surrounds it. Beyond the bulls, this is an exhilarating travelogue of two brothers exploring the Navarra region, its food and customs and hidden treasures, and the relationships that they form and reinforce each year as they applaud one another and prepare for the next season. <strong><em>Booklist<br /></em></strong><br />Best book out about everything you need to know before running with the Pamplona bulls whose author survived 70 runs. A must read if only to learn that every manhole cover there is ice. Exciting even for the non-runner. Should be Pamplona's Official Book on the subject. <strong><em>Robert F. Burgess, </em></strong><em>Hemingway's Paris and Pamplona: Then and Now</em><strong><em><br /><br /></em></strong>At times hilarious at others deadly serious, <em>Bulls Before Breakfast</em> is a fun, vivid, informative, lyrical and authentic exploration of the San Fermin Festival through the lens of an author who truly loves it. Both Peter Milligan and his brother Ari suffered serious injury and returned to Pamplona to run with the bulls which is one of the truest tests of a bull runner. Both of these Mozos are the real thing and I feel very honored to run bulls with them. <em><strong>Bill Hillmann</strong>, American bull runner and author<br /><br /></em>I have been covering San Fermin for years now for the Associated French Press and Peter is by far the foreigner I have met with the deepest knowledge, the most passion, and the greatest respect for the fiesta and all its traditions. <em><strong>Daniel Silva</strong>, AFP<br /><br /></em>A rip-roaring, bull running, bovine snorting, tale of a city, people and fiesta I love. But it's so much more. It's the story of two brothers travels in and around the beautiful countryside and coast that surrounds Pamplona, full of history and humour, antics and anecdotes, glorious mishaps and gorgeous meals. A truly moveable feast! <em><strong>Tim Pinks</strong>, thirty-year-plus fiesta veteran and author of the Pamplona tale Bullseye<br /><br /></em>One of the world's most colourful events told by one of its most colourful characters. I first met Peter Milligan and his friend Ari in the thick of the crowd while I was making a documentary about the festival. We were about to be charged at by Bulls. Peter explained that we were "not running against them  we're running with them joining the herd on their last morning in the sun as they go to the bullring." As Peter tells of his experience of Bulls Before Breakfast its clear he is just regular guy who is simply passionate about what he does. It has nothing to do machismo; but is a unique experience that forges friendships in no other way. Peter takes you right into the narrow streets and gives a heart thumping account of what it's like to run with bulls and he also offers a superb guide to the intricacies of the festival. It is a brilliant, vivid and very personal account and perfect reading for anyone thinking of running with the bulls in Pamplona. Not that they should. <em><strong>Jason Farrell</strong>, Sky News journalist, filmed "Running with the Bulls" by FilmWorks</em>
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  Initially published by
  
  
  Town and Country House
  
  
  42 Morehampton Road
  
  
  Donneybrook
  
  
  Dublin 4
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright  Derek Fee
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover design: Jack Hayden Design and Art
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
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  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PAMPLONA, JULY 8TH
  
  
  
  
  
  Bruno Cavelli moved carefully through the crowd. It was 6.00 am, but already
  the narrow cobbled streets of Pamplona were crammed with both locals and
  tourists, all making their way towards the Plaza del Castillo. There, lured by
  the prospect of danger and bloodshed and by the legend created by Ernest
  Hemingway, they would watch the running of the bulls, the spectacle that forms
  part of the city's annual celebrations in honour of its patron, Saint Fermin.
  
  
  The majority of the crowd, both male and female, wore, like Cavelli, the
  traditional dress of those taking part in the running of the bulls - red
  neck