61 things that you will only understand if you are from Pamplona
For starters, it's not Mordor. To continue, he speaks two languages that are the backbone of two realities and two lifestyles. Small, halfway between the rural and the airs of Nordic development, with associative spirit and much life beyond July 7 , at least the capital of Navarra is attractive and fun. If you follow these basic guidelines, you will be able to mix without problem among its people (or not).
IDIOSYNCRASY
1) You argued for years over the ** tile or cobblestone of the Estafeta ** and it was an issue that even divided families.
two) Just as you bored your friends abroad by telling them about the works of the parking lot of the Plaza del Castillo.
3) Do you love (or not) the batucadas in the Plaza del Castillo . Y everything that happens in the Plaza del Castillo.
4) You don't have whims, you have 'txirrinta'.
5) In fact you have no whims. You are Navarrese.
6) Like the people of San Sebastian, you know that if a person greets you in Basque with an “aupa” , is that he votes for Bildu or Nafarroa Bai and if it is with a "hello" to UPN. It's not even remotely true, but this is one of your basic notions of politics.
7) Just like if they tell you 'kaixo', you deduce that this tapas in the Old and if they tell you "hello" do you know what it is more of the pijotxosnas around the Plaza de Toros.
You always like the Plaza del Castillo.
8) you passed your youth in a bottom: that space that the gang rents (or that some unwary parent gives) to go to drink, smoke, make dinners and take the girl.
9) you go to the cinema to see all the films that have to do with Navarra, San Fermín, or have been directed by “Montxo” . And if you're Basque, of course you went to see '8 Basque surnames' just because it included the word 'Basque'.
10) If you consider yourself Basque, you know how many ditto surnames you have.
eleven) The ** bangs ** thing didn't make you very funny (because you wear it like that, of course).
12) At your parents' or aunts' house there is always a copy of the day of the 'Diario de Noticias' or the 'Diario de Navarra' , and the world is divided between those who read one or the other . If they don't subscribe it's because they don't want to and because they like to go for the bread and upload it.
13) When you come back at dawn, you act like a good son by uploading the newspaper to them.
14) You also believe when you leave and come back that Pamplona is Mordor.
fifteen) you carry extreme heat fatal If you live abroad and you miss them like nothing, mount them and this:
16) You also miss the chistorra: protests because in other cities the butchers don't know how to make it.
17) Y you hallucinate with unpunctuality. In Pamplona, if you say “about 2” it is at 2, not 2.15, 2.20 or even 2.45 in the rest of Spain.
18) The garden is part of your DNA.
19) It saddens you that despite having so much university population, Pamplona not be considered a 'college town', as party as you are.
twenty) You know exactly who the Dead Koma and Lendakaris are.
IDIOM
twenty-one) “In the morning”, “in the afternoon” and “at night” is just as correct as using the conditional instead of the imperfect subjunctive. "If it would be good..."
22) You also think you have a neutral accent, until you go outside, say hello with a “ what's up or what?" and you see that they look at you and smile.
23) Only here it is called 'Villavesa' to the bus.
La Villavesa at the University of Navarra.
24) It bothers you that outsiders say “the osasuna” (well, in better times, when they named it) . It is actually 'Osasuna' to dry.
25) cubed, pool to dress the salad, to compose . to the apron, tangerine and to the slippers, t-shirts ; neither sneakers nor nonsense of the style.
26) What your grandmother did every morning was "estremar" (pick up and clean the house, which of course was already very clean). There is a possibility that she says "extreme" because, of course, she also said "tasis". You never knew where the expression comes from.
27) If you are Basque, you call the boyfriend or girlfriend a boy or a girl , but that is also the same in the rest of Euskal Herria.
28) You put "Ico" to everything: jacket, small, pinchico, the attic...
29) If you say, depending on what tone: "better if you don't come...", does not mean that they do not want you to go, but "Luckily you came..." or "you had better come." It can be confusing, of course.
30) be in the Lareki orchard is to be in graveyard (which seems to have been done on land that would previously belong to a certain Lareki).
31) Before, the guards who walked the streets of Pamplona guarding gardens and others were called "japis". One of the kilikis of the Txantrea is precisely a "japi".
Kilikis are scary. That's how it is.
OUTFIT
32) The combination shorts-jacket it is a basic.
33) Actually, you call shorts shorts.
3. 4) The world is divided between those who wear Quechua or Lacoste.
35) Only a Navarrese takes the jacket even to the beach "in case it cools down".
36) Families are divided among those who they take the children with shorts and socks and moccasins and to the girls with flower dresses and matching bow on their heads , and those who wear them with striped tights and modern haircuts with bangs, of course (which seems normal to you).
37) The sobriety it is an imperative that you can only get out of when you are drunk in San Fermín.
You adore the arrival of the Magi over the bridge of La Magdalena.
THE GANG
38) You have a crew since you were born.
39) Whether you like it or not It will be part of all the events of your life.
40) You like. The gang is sacred.
41) Weddings are participatory , because It is not dominated by the godparents or the boyfriends, but by the gang: your friends talk, sing, are masters of ceremonies, they make a fool of you...
Well yes, on TV it seems bigger, what happens?
PARTIES
42) The carnivals are on December 31. All On July 5 you sleep worse than a child on January 5 waiting for the Kings.
43) The year is divided between **before and after San Fermín**.
44) If you're out, you do everything humanly possible to return home on July 6 to chupinazo . If it is not possible, you wear the red scarf even if you have to meet with Pope Francis himself (who would you give one to) .
Four. Five) It is not said 'sanfermines', but 'Sanfermín'.
46) You know that someone is not from here because they go in sandals at San Fermin.
47) you're sick of that everyone asks you if you run the running of the bulls , as if you were an adrenaline junkie.
48) or that they tell you that actually how small is the town hall square , which looks bigger on TV.
49) You forget your prejudices and you are able to dance Lolita's Sarandonga in a Herriko Tavern.
fifty) It seems logical and normal (and funny) to you that some guys with a giant head over the shoulders scare the children and hit them.
51) It is the only place in the world where you would pay 30 euros to enter the bullring and not pay any attention to the bullfighting show (the one in the stands is better).
52) you love him espadrille dance , even if the posh people do it at the ** Casino del Iruña ** on the mornings of San Fermín, and a friend tells you that he is pathetic and retarded . But you know that after a night of gauze [spree] is Amazing.
Why does everyone think you want to do this?
NIGHT LIFE
53) Here there is no friday cover, but thursday hey, with the presence of even grandmothers who don't want to miss their pintxo + zurito.
54) The pintxo + zurito it is also the basic power unit.
55)Paris - Nice is not a race , but a route of bars that if you do directly you die (there are more than 60).
56) You know well the saying that “Flirting (actually something else) in Pamplona is not a sin, it's a miracle”.
Tapas and wines on Thursdays at Café Niza.
GASTRONOMY
57) The Roscón de Reyes and the Torrijas de Semana Santa seem like commercial inventions, something that "isn't from here".
58) you know well that the lemon sorbet of the Gazteluleku Society is the best thing to drink in San Fermín (if it's hot, you never know).
59) The The best lettuces are those from La Magdalena . And point.
60) The best churros are those from La Mañueta . It is not a lady, it is a street of the Old.
61) You know that summer has come because your aunts put you to eat stuffed (blessed be): a sausage made from rice, egg, white pork bacon, onion, garlic, salt, parsley and saffron.
THE PLUS: It bothers you that **s** Only those from the Basque Country get the fame of pintxos . Here there are also very good ones: the historical kidney beans from the Urrizelki bar and the sardines from El Marrano", the modern fried eggs from the River, the octopus from the Oreja, the mushroom croquettes...
A Pintxo Reyno Gourmet with chistorra from Navarra can do it all.
*Report published on May 29, 2015 and updated on July 6, 2018