We just love going to Spain for our holidays, often we have been known to take an Easy Jet flight for a long weekend, hiring an apartment on the internet before we go, lovely to get a little Spanish sun, wine and food don’t you think? In all the years that I have been going to Spain I have to say that I have never ever been to a bull fight, somehow it just did not appeal to me. I have been round a couple of bull rings during the day on visitor tours and looked at the museums there, what is not in question is that the Spanish do, or perhaps I should did, love their bull fights, not any more in Barcelona though!

Surprisingly the Catalonia parliament in Barcelona has voted for a ban in a move that rejects a hallmark of traditionalist in a region with its own language and culture. I have been to Barcelona and it is a fascinating city which once boasted three bull rings, but tastes have obviously changed and it looks as there soon to be none. I know from my visits that bullfighting in Barcelona is not as popular as it is in Madrid, or even Andalusia in the south, but the Catalans along with those from the Basque region has the most self-rule among Spain’s semi-autonomous regions, running its own police force and having a say over a wide range of other issues. Could this be the beginning of the end for bullfighting throughout the rest of Spain?