Bullfighting
His essay on bullfighting for Prospect magazine in September 2008 led him to move to Spain for further research, including living and bullfighting with top matadors such as the one-eyed Juan José Padilla and Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez, writing his experiences up on his blog The Last Arena - In Search of the Spanish Bullfight.
In September 2009 the journalist Giles Coren visited Fiske-Harrison in Spain. In his feature about that visit - 'Mad Bulls and Englishmen' in The Times - he described him as: "Very brave. Very British. Very Charge of the Light Brigade. Very trenches. Very scary."
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