After a late night of calimocho, chistorra and excellent music, I awoke after a few hours of sleep to see the first running of the bulls (encierro). Pamplona’s main newspaper, the Diario de Navarra, reports just four injuries at this morning’s 8am run, most of them at the very beginning of the course on Calle Santo Domingo (the uphill cuesta where the bulls actually run fastest, bounding up the hill).  None of the injuries were from horn punctures.  The four hospitalized people suffered relatively light injuries from being knocked down by bulls or people.  One person was unconscious from a concussion on the cobblestone street.

On our Spanish website, see: Video of this morning’s bull run.