Post Archive


Here you can find every post from Jack's Journal, even the ones I've hidden! 

When Morante de la Puebla hit the ground during last year's Feria de Otoño, I saw what many others did. As he recovered from a tough cogida, Morante's face revealed a man suddenly realising he was an old man in a young man's profession. At forty-five years old, the hits, cogidas, and cornadas hit harder and took longer to heal than they did ten years before.

Please don’t run right here. It is very difficult. That is what you will hear from the Spanish police if you are at the intersection of San Sebastián de los Reyes’s Calles de Leopoldo Gimeno and Real Vieja...

An American crossing Turkey by bus sets out to trace the spread of Islam across Anatolia, only to find his journey unexpectedly tracked by an undercover police officer at a remote station in Diyarbakir.

An armed escort was waiting the bottom of the steps. They weren’t there for me. I wasn’t in the military anymore, so I joined the line of people making their way from the plane to passport control. The colonels and non-commissioned officers that shared my flight sped to the coalition airbase on the opposite side of the runway. They had a war to fight behind concrete walls an

On a visit to a region plagued by war, a former military officer seeks out a different side to Iraqi Kurdistan that dispels the stereotypes common across America, finding a place paved with peace, from Christian monasteries to pristine waterfalls.