A day to celebrate both the American writer Ernest Hemingwayand the traditional Spanish festivals of San Fermin.
It is an annual tradition, in Floridain the city of Key Westwhere the festivities of “The Hemingway Days”which honor the sporting lifestyle and literary legacy of the author who lived and wrote on the island for most of the 1930s. This year they were held from July 19 to 24.
Thousands of burly, bearded Hemingway impersonators paraded the streets to re-enact Key West’s “Running of the Bulls,” their own version of the famous annual bull run. Pamplona, Spain.
The writer discovered the emotion of bullfighting on his first visit to Spain, and was so fascinated that he even wrote “Death in the Afternoon”, a complete treatise on bullfighting, explaining bullfighters and bullfighting, because he believed that bullfighting it was “of great tragic interest, being literally life and death”.
A few hours following the running of the bulls, 25 semi-finalists selected from among 125 participants competed for victory in the final round of the famous Similarity Contest.
