Contact Us. How should we reach out? Email Me Call Me. First Name. Last Name. Email Address. Phone Number. What time works best? How did you hear about us? Your Message. Join the Boozeletter. Posted by Stoke Media Team 8 years ago April 14, For me, the adventure began at the Stoke office in Barcelona on Tuesday afternoon.
A fellow Stokie and I were given the task of guiding a group of Aussie customers from Barcelona to Pucol , the location of the Stoke festival campsite. Soon after arriving at Stoke HQ, we were ushered onto buses to head to Requena for a pre-Tomatina water and wine fight.
This is a lesser known tradition that is attended by more locals than tourists, although there are still plenty of drunken foreigners to be seen about the place. Many chose to sleep, but some of us saw the benefit in pushing through for the sake of avoiding a ha ngover β or an accidental sleep in. At 6am, a Bloody Mary serves as a delicious alcoholic beverage as well as a nutritious breakfast option. Instead, we enjoyed the drinks β probably the only tomato we actually wanted in our mouths that day β and made our way to the buses.
In our delirious state, the bus ride flew by in a whirl of friend making and face painting and we were pulling into the overcrowded car park in no time. Nonetheless, I joined the throng of Stokies and together we pushed our way as far as possible into the heart of crowd.
The Tomatina fight itself begins when some enthusiastic person is agile enough to climb a greased up flagpole to retrieve a leg of ham suspended meters above the cheering, chanting mass. If no one successfully removes the porky treasure they give up after about two hours and start the tom-fest anyway.
