As daredevils from around the world try to outrun half-tonne bulls in the Spanish city of Pamplona we look at some of the other weird and wonderful festivals coming up
Summer is here, which means the silly season is in full swing in Europe. As daredevils from around the world try to outrun half-tonne bulls in the Spanish city of Pamplona we look at some of the other weird and wonderful festivals coming up.
Usually involving some 160 tonnes of ripe tomatoes, it has been billed "the world's biggest food fight".
It has become a major draw for tourists from as far away as Japan and the United States.
Among this year's contestants will be Rob Palmer, who will represent Thailand with his pouting impression of former US president Donald Trump playing Green Day's "American Idiot".
According to the competition's ideology wars would end, climate change stop and all bad things disappear if everyone in the world played air guitar.
More than three decades after its inception the event attracts competitors from Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic and Australia, according to Visitwales.com.
Lonely Planet has described it as one of the world's top 50 "must do" experiences. The time to beat is current champion Neil Rutter's record of 1 minute 18.23 seconds.
The national champion is the person who delivers the best series of grunts, squeaks, squeals and oinks, illustrating the high points in a pig's existence.
The event also involves piglet racing and black pudding-eating competitions.
Some 250 traders will this year tout mounds of braided bulbs of white, pink and purple garlic and pots of assorted varieties of basil—from lemon to cinnamon, purple and Thai—in one of the gastronomic city's oldest neighbourhoods.