“Agur, adichatz, for a time! We will meet again in the spring”
No nostalgia or neurasthenic melancholy for the bullfighting people from Bayonne, Soustons, Bordeaux, Vic and other Basque and Gascon bullfighting countries. The simple happiness of being together and sharing the passion and the rite. It was the last bullfighting meeting of the season in the south-west this Sunday in Rion-des-Landes. Like every autumn, a campera fiesta organized jointly and remarkably well by the local bullfighting clubs and the retired matador Jean-Baptiste Jalabert. On the track, Camargue novillos, precisely from the Jalabert brothers and Alma Serena de Chalosse from Philippe Bats, of various game, good the second Jalabert, formidable the third, more complex the two Alma Serena, the first badly linked to the horse, the second that demanded. For Alberto Lamelas, the Madrid player who we will see a lot in the southwest next season. For Jesus Enrique Colombo, spectacular, playful. Clemente, the Clément Dubec de Poullion and Bordeaux combined, the most expressive, the best on the track, in evidence, confirming past successes, promising for tomorrow. Christian Parejo, the chiclanero from Béizers who will be a matador in the pinardière city on August 13 and who fell on a novillo too badly pricked. And for Tristan Barroso, at the gates of a rise in power that we expect for the next temporada. Also evident. Large and beautiful unprecedented crowd in this place at that time, more than 1000 people. A rally in support of bullfighting by peñas and bullfighting clubs and aficionados from across the region for a strong demonstration of allegiance to traditions and to the country.