Pamplona EuroRomp Power Ranking

Now that you’ve fully imbibed yourself with our Pamplona experience in my last post, we can move on to the power ranking:

Hostel – 6.75

Pretty bad location and price, and the room was basically just one big bed with a bathroom the size of a Backstreet Boy (in their prime). We did sleep in shopping carts and cardboard in a park at night at night though, so I suppose the hostel didn’t get much of a chance.

Food – 8.5

“The last supper” was a pretty phenomenal steak and a standard order fries covered in sauce along with 5 other tapas. Aside from that our only meal was Don Simon’s finest sangria, which was just fantastic and pure as usual.

Sites –7.5

Didn’t get to see too much but walking around a bar-infested town overflowing with drunk adventurists, locals and children alike wearing the same wine-splattered outfit was pretty amazing. Despite the entire town smelling like MA’s bathroom (BC shoutout!), and making sure to carefully plot every step not to avoid tripping but to avoid cess pools of man sweat, stale urine, rat shit and general grossness, it was an amazing place to be.

Best Site – Pamplona’s Stadium – 9

I will reemphasize that what takes place inside here is the closest thing to The Coliseum’s hayday since…the Coliseum’s hayday. Reaching it at the end of the run and finding Goose and Sam (instant high 5’s all around) felt like a life accomplishment and an athletic feat simultaneously. Standing on the ground and (while there weren’t bulls running rampant) just taking in the ~25,000-seat old cement stadium lined with columns, children screaming, “rip his head off!” in Spanish, and the crowd going nuts when someone was impaled or trampled was incredible. I can’t really compare it to any other experience, until I am again dodging wild animals in front of thousands cheering for bloodshed.

Nightlife – 10

Can’t say much more about the incredibly vile and anti-hygienic style the town parties in for the week throughout the streets, but I can say plenty more that I would do this 11 out of 10 times. Our only regret was not enough time spent there to take all the festivities in. No doubt about it. Nevermind the unidentified fungi likely crawling all over our legs and my weird new desire to go get revaccinated for everything ever – it’s worth it. 

Updated Standings:

1) Rome - 46

1) Prague - 46

2) Paris - 44.75

3) Madrid - 44

4) Barca - 43.5

5) Amsterdam - 42

6) Pamplona - 41.75

7) Vienna - 41.5 

7) Venice - 41.5

8) Nice - 41

9) Brussels - 40.75

10) Frankfurt - 40

11) Genoa - 39.5

12) Florence - 39.25 

13) Berlin - 39

13) Bordeux - 39

14) Marseille - 38

15) Narbonne - 36