All Around Insanity

Sorry for not posting the past few days. I havent had access to a computer...
So, we actually wound up making it to Pamplona for the Running of the Bulls. What can I say about Pamplona... it was like the worlds biggest outdoor frat party multiplied by 100000. I have never seen anything like that in my life. We met up with some awesome guys our age from Colorado and ran around the city meeting people from all over the world and everyone was drinking wine and dancing in the streets til the wee hours and it was absolutely insane.
Thats where the fun ended though. Greg somehow managed to seperate himself from everyone else even though me and one of the guys we were with were about at least 6 inches taller than the next tallest person and 10 seconds after we lost track of Greg who is still mad about the situation bc hye went off by himself to our meeting spot while we figured we´d wind up seeing him there in a few hours in the morning bc we had no idea where we were or how to get there after drinking way too much wine and being in the middle of half a million partiers.
Anyway, I wound up following these guys back to where they were going to crash for a few hours near their car at this park and immediately fell asleep. When I came to, I was somehow sleeping in a graveyard and it was 9 am, an hour after the running of the bulls started and 45 minutes after it ended. I then tried to find where Greg was at our ¨meeting spot¨ but, again, couldnt find it, and since it was 10 am then, decided to head to the bus station where we had an 11 am bus back to Vitoria. I waited there about half an hour and then Greg showed up and the nightmare was over. I had our passports, rail passes, and credit cards on me, so if he missed that bus, I dont know how he would have made it back to Vitoria.
A word on that.... Thank God for secret security wallets. I had a money clip with only about 10 euros in my pocket, which was stolen from me while I slept I guess. The guys I was with had their bags and just about everything other than their passports and credit cards which they hid under the spare tire of their car taken from them as they slept in that same car where their bags were. Greg had his wallet (with nothing important in it thankfully) literally cut out of his pocket while he slept on a bench and he unfortunately lost like 50 euros.
So Pamplona was pretty much a failure. It was hell trying to get there, we got robbed (unfortunately not too badly, though), and we both missed the actual Running of the Bulls because I was sleeping and Greg was waiting at our meeting spot I never wound up finding again.
Sooooo, yesterday we managed to make it back to Vitoria which was a great city in the middle of Basque country with noi tourists and an awesome cheap hotel that we spent the entire day recovering from Pamplona in. Today, we traveled to Bilbao where we are now. Bilbao seems like an awesome city and the primary language here is Basque, not Spanish, which makes things interesting. I wont be seeing much of Bilbao, though, because I have to get on a bus at 6 am to the airport in Santander which is like the budget airline airport for Bilbao and is an hour and a half away. I´m really, really excited to get back to Dublin and spend some time with Lauren. I´m going to give Dublin another chance and also travel to the Irish countryside which I´m sure I will love. Overall, I need a break from traveling and having a whole week in Dublin is going to be amazing and is exactly what I need.
Lets just pray something insane doesnt happen in my traveling between now and then like every time weve tried to travel somewhere in Spain so far.
I solemnly swear I will never set foot in this country again if I can help it. It may be beautiful, the food and climate may be great, but I have never had such bad luck, especially when everything was going so smoothly until we got here.
My favorite countries in order so far:
Germany
Czech Republic
France
Ireland
Belgium
Switzerland
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Spain