PADM , ive been an aficionado since I was a small boy living in Madrid . If we had stayed on in Spain I think I would have done my best to go to an Escula taurina . I returned to Scotland and didnt see a corrida for 20 years . the only real thing I heard about bullfighting in that time that my 2 heros as a kid where killed , Paquirri and Yiyo , and that was only a couple of years after I had left Spain .
When I returned to madrid 20 years later having lived in animal loving UK , I went to a corrida not knowing if i would still enjoy it , but the passion returned and it will never leave me .
When I was living in Madrid I hung about with expats and Spainsh kids but I was the only one who wanted to be a bullfighter .
Steve the cigar smell is something ive always associated with the bullfight and when i smelt one back home that is the memories it brought back to me .