Today saw the first encierro of Pamplona’s San Fermín festival, in which several hundred drunken Spaniards and tourists decide that it will be a great idea to let several tons of pissed-off bovine chase them through the streets of the old city.

Turning away from all things digital for a moment, I’d like to call your attention to the original, analog travel journal, the Moleskine.

The NYT is in a very literary-travel mood these days: first, there was last weekend’s decidedly bookish section, then yesterday, the debut of Matt Gross’ new series “Around the World in 90 days.�

This weekend the the LA Times, like the good industry-town rag that it is, runs its coverage of Da Vinci Code-inspired advertising opportunities — I mean travel — as close to the opening date of the film as possible.

The broadband-enabled, linked-up world isn’t sitting well with the powers that be at the major broadsheets’ travel desks, who opted for some very literary and elegiac navel-gazing about the ghosts of travel past this weekend.