Spain - Calimocho

Calimocho, the official drink of the San Fermin summer festival in Pamplona, Spain, is a delicious concoction consisting of Coca-Cola and red wine. At first mention of this combination, your stomach twists and turns but after you experience the biggest theme party of your life, your impression changes, and you slowly begin to appreciate this beverage for all its glory. The evening blasts off with fantastic displays of fireworks, a never ending sing-along and of course, your introduction to calimocho. Evening turns into night and as you enjoy your new friends and comfortable, white outerwear, you realize...hotels' everywhere list, NO VACANCY. This can mean only one thing -- the all-nighter is in full effect. And as you and many other festival goers come to accept this common fate, your attention turns into excited anticipation for the morning Bull Run, so you persevere and continue celebrating. Calimocho becomes your tool, your methodology, and the only thing that will uphold your newly acquired San Fermin persona and allow you to catch the 3 crucial seconds of the legendary Spanish-Bull, run.