Tag Archives: Madrid

Meeting Hemingway’s Hero

Posted on July 7, 2016 by 100swallows

I knew a bar called Las Panderetas where bullfighters went and I had seen Nicanor Villalta sitting at a table in the corner one afternoon.  I could have approached him right then but I wasn´t ready, and by the time … Continue reading →

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The Great Bullfight

Posted on June 18, 2008 by 100swallows

“Tell me about the fight, Luis,” I said. “I didn’t go to the ring that afternoon and it is one of the biggest regrets of my life. Was it as great as they say?”   Rafael de Paula (photo from … Continue reading →

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The Valley of the Fallen

Posted on April 8, 2008 by 100swallows

At Appomattox, at the end of the American Civil War, the surrender of the Southern armies was unconditional. The parlor of the (reconstructed) McLean House, Appomattox Court House, Virginia, site of the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the … Continue reading →

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