In 1997 my buddy Scot and I planned to Eurorail across Spain, hook up with a Yugoslavian freighter at Gibraltar and cruise to Casablanca to celebrate our birthdays (which fell around the same time) at Rick's Cafe Americain.But I ran low on Pesetas so we went to a bullfight instead with a crazy retired Matador nicknamed "The Thunderer" which sounds better in Spanish.
After the corrida Scot went back to Jerusalem and two months later I went to Oklahoma.
2008 Update: Yugoslavia is now Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Croatia and Slovenia. Pesetas have been replaced by Euros. And bullfighting is now banned in Barcelona.
