10-27: The Plaza de Toros in Ronda

Put a Plotnik into a bull ring and he is bound to pull out his cape. If it's a black cape, a sympathetic woman nearby is sure to offer him her red cape.

El Plotniko Muy Macho!!

Bullfighting is to Ronda what soccer is to Manchester. It is not considered a sport, but a national treasure. Bullfights are written up on the society page, not in the sports section.

Let Plottie tell you: when you're in there, standing on the sand staring up at seats for 5,000 people, all of which would be filled, waiting for a really big bull with huge, sharp horns to be released into the ring to try and gore your guts out, it doesn't seem like sport either, but suicide.