España Day 1 - Tours to Pamplona

Carrying nothing but backpacks, with no idea of hotel reservations, we arrived at the Tours train station around 3:30pm to begin the adventure of a lifetime.
And so it began with a 6-hour train ride from Tours to Irun, Spain, just over the border, with a brief stop in Bordeaux. A rather uneventful ride - except for a few quotable jokes from Justin during the ride. We arrived in Irun around 10:30pm, showed our passports, and then proceeded to try to find a way to get from there to Pamplona that night. The bus we thought might do it left at 11:30pm but it would been awful to wait so long for a bus that may or may not stop at Pamplona on the way to Barcelona. So we considered taxis - each car would cost 100 euros and unfortunately we had too many people to fit in one. So we ventured to find some others heading that way to fill the cars - after a failed attempt with some Brits, we ran across some confused Italians who did one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. They thought that they were already in Pamplona - a mistake made because Pamplona's Basque name is Iruña - very similar to Irun. Haha - still a dumb mistake - but good for us, as they agreed to split a cab with us - we arrived in Pamplona after a lovely ride through the mountains (though it was dark) at around 11:30.
Arrival in Pamplona was eerie and weird - as you looked around, we saw everyone in the streets dressed in all white with red handkerchiefs. Woah. Cool. We immediately bought the proper clothes - for me, I already had a white shirt and white shorts, so just a red handkerchief did the trick.
From there, we were rather tired and had to save energy for the next morning - thus we walked around a bit and then found a spot on the ground in a park, where we laid out our belongings - towels, shirts, anything we could find to keep us warm. It was about 1am at this time and we planned to take shifts staying up and making sure our surroundings were safe. With a jacket on and a shirt wrapped around my legs to stay warm, I shivered my way into a restless sleep.